Books
Adams, M. 2005a Admiral Collingwood: Nelson’s own hero. Weidenfeld and Nicholson
Adams, M. 2005b Collingwood: Northumberland’s Heart of Oak. Tyne Bridge Publishing
Adams, M. 2010 The Prometheans: John Martin and the generation that stole the future. London, Quercus Paperback.
Adams, M. 2013 The King in the North: the life and times of Oswald Whiteblade. London: Head of Zeus
Adams, M. 2014 The wisdom of trees. London: Head of Zeus
Adams, M. 2015 In the Land of Giants. London: Head of Zeus
Adams, M. 2016 The Ambulist. Durham: beat&track
Adams, M. 2017 Ælfred’s Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age. London: Head of Zeus
Adams, M. 2018 Unquiet Women: from the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment. London: Head of Zeus
Adams, M. 2019 The Little Book of Planting Trees. London: Head of Zeus
Adams, M. 2019 Trees of Life. London: Head of Zeus
Adams, M. 2021f The First Kingdom 400-600. London: Head of Zeus
Academic
Adams, M. and Reeve, J. 1987 Excavations at Christ Church, Spitalfields 1984-1986. Antiquity 61:247-56
Adams, M. and Reeve, J. 1989 It’s a dirty job but somebody’s got to do it: the archaeological context in palaeopathological study. In Roberts, C.A., Lee, F. and Bintliff, J. (Eds) Burial archaeology: current research, methods and developments. BAR British Series 211:267-273
Adams, M. 1991 A logic of archaeological inference. Journal of Theoretical Archaeology 2:1-11
Adams, M. 1992a Darwin’s worms: a review. The Field Archaeologist 18:1-4
Adams, M. 1992b Stratigraphy after Harris: some questions. In Steane, K. (Ed) Interpretation of stratigraphy: a review of the art, 13-16 City of Lincoln Archaeology Unit
Reeve, J and Adams, M. 1993 The Spitalfields Project: The excavations. Council for British Archaeology Research Report 84
Adams, M. and Brooke, C. 1995 Unmanaging the past: truth, data and the human being. Norwegian Archaeological Review 28, 2: 93-104.
Adams, M. and Haselgrove, C.C. 1995 Excavations at Port Seton East, East Lothian. Universities of Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeological Reports 19, 46-51
Adams, M. 1996a Iron Age rig and furrow? So it seems. British Archaeology 13, 6. Council for British Archaeology
Adams, M. 1996b Excavation of a pre-Conquest cemetery at Addingham, West Yorkshire. Medieval Archaeology 40, 151-191
Adams, M. 1996c Setting the scene: the Mesolithic in Northern England. In Frodsham, P. (Ed) Neolithic Studies on No-man’s land: Papers on the Neolithic of Northern England from the Trent to theTweed. Northern Archaeology 13/14, 1-7
Adams, M. 1999 Beyond the Pale: some thoughts on the later prehistory of the Breamish Valley. In Bevan, B, (Ed) Northern Exposure: interpretive devolution and the Iron Ages in Britain. Leicester Archaeology Monographs 4: 111-122
Adams, M. 2000 The Optician’s trick: an approach to recording excavation using an iconic formation processes recognition system. In Roskams, S. (Ed) Interpreting Stratigraphy: Site evaluation, recording procedures and stratigraphic analysis. BAR International Series 910: 91-102
Adams, M. 2004 Alfred the Great. In Merullo, A. and Wenborn, N. (eds) British military greats:12-15 Cassell illustrated.
Adams, M. and O’Brien, C. 2013 A geophysical survey at Carrowmore Ecclesiastical Complex, Inishowen, August 2012. Donegal Annual Vol 65: 5-9 2013
Adams, M. and O’Brien, C. 2021 A Sparrow in the Temple? The Ephemeral and the Eternal in Bede’s Northumbria. In Hüglin, S., Gramsch, A. and Seppänen, L. (eds) 2021 Petrification Processes in Matter and Society, 155-166. Themes in Contemporary Archaeology. Cham: Springer Nature
O’Brien, Adams, Haycock, O’Meara and Pennie ‘The Early Ecclesiastical Complexes of Carrowmore and Clonca and their Landscape Context in Inishowen, Co. Donegal.’ Ulster Archaeological Journal, 72 (2013-14), 142-160.
O’Brien, C. and Adams, M. 2016a‘Early Ecclesiastical Precincts and Landscapes of Inishowen, Co. Donegal’ 160-174 in T. Ó Carragáin and S. Turner (eds) Making Christian Landscapes in Atlantic Europe. University of Cork Press.
O’Brien, C. and Adams, M. 2016b The identification of Early Medieval monastic estates in Northumbria. Medieval Settlement Research 31, 15-27
O’Brien C, Adams M, Haycock D, O’Meara D, Pennie J 2016 ‘The Early Ecclesiastical Complexes of Carrowmore and Clonca and their Landscape Context in Inishowen, County Donegal.’ Ulster Archaeological Journal Vol 72, (2013-14), 142–160.
O’Brien, C., Adams, M. and Whaley, D. 2018 King Ceolwulf’s land grants to St Cuthbert and their loss in the ninth century. Archaeologia Aeliana Fifth Series, volume 47, 79-116
Magazines
Adams, M. 2002 Northumberland: landscape of spirits and saints. The Northumbrian April/May 2002: 23-26
Adams, M. 2005 Humphry Davy and the ‘murder’ Lamp. History Today 55 (8): 4-5
Adams, M. 2006 John Martin and the Prometheans. History Today 56 (8): 40-49
Adams, M. 2007a A real Jack Aubrey? Naval History 21:1 56-60
Adams, M. 2007b After Nelson… Viva Collingwood! The Trafalgar Chronicle 17: 62-70
Adams, M. 2011 Philip Rahtz: a memoir. Antiquity: In Memoriam
Adams, M. 2012a Only time will tell. Novel Magazine Issue 6
Adams, M. 2012b A plank’s life. Alliterati 6: 20-21
Adams, M. 2012c The Age of Wood. Vintage Magazine Issue 5
Adams, M. 2012d John Martin and the theatre of artistic subversion. Public Domain Review uploaded 12.07.2012
Adams, M. 2013 Oswald Whiteblade: Northumbria’s ‘Irish’ king. The Northumbrian 135: August/September 2013.
Adams, M. 2016 Eda Frandsen: a voyage to the Dark Ages. Classic Boat Magazine May 2016
Adams, M. 2017 The ransom of the Golden Gospel: on the trail of the Codex aureus. Royal Literary Fund ‘Collected’. https://www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/the-ransom-of-the-golden-gospel
Unpublished short stories
Adams, M. 2010 The Céleste Paon affair
Adams, M. 2012 A death on the line