After leaving the Priory Trevor went on to University College London and Linacre College, Oxford University.

At Oxford he studied under the great landscape historian, WG Hoskins He enjoyed a career in Extra Mural Education with Oxford University, where he was Lecturer in Archaeology and later Deputy Director. He is now an Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

Trevor’s first book was The Shropshire Landscape, which appeared in 1972, he has also written a book on The Welsh Borderland, which contains a great deal of material on Shropshire’s history. Another of his books, Landscape Archaeology, was written together with Time Team presenter Mick Aston.

Trevor’s most recent book appeared in March, and is called The Man Behind the Bayeux Tapestry – Odo, William the Conqueror’s Half Brother, (The History Press, 2013, £16.99). It is the first full Biography Odo Bishop of Bayeux and Earl of Kent and according to Trevor, ‘was great fun to write, as Odo had such an extraordinary life, starting as a bishop in his teens and ending in Sicily, where he died on his way to the First Crusade. He was a battling bishop and not such a lovable rogue’.

Trevor is now writing a short biography of William the Conqueror and combining his two research enthusiasms, landscape history and the Normans in a book on The Archaeology and Landscape of the Bayeux Tapestry. His mother still lives in Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury and he visits the town regularly. He is due to lecture in Shrewsbury later this year on ‘The Shropshire Landscape forty years on’.