Faull was born in 1946 and grew up in Sydney.[1] She completed her PhD thesis, 'British survival in Anglo-Saxon Yorkshire', at the Department of Archaeology at the University of Leeds in 1979.[2] Faull worked as an archaeologist for what was at the time the West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council, followed by employment at Thwaite Mills Industrial Museum in Leeds. In 1986, she supported the banning of South African archaeologists from the World Archaeological Congress as part of the Academic boycott of South Africa in opposition to apartheid.[3] She moved to the English National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield in 1987,[4] taking an MA at the University of Sheffield with a thesis on 'The Use by Local Authorities of the Charitable Trust as a Vehicle for Establishing and Operating Museums. Two Case Studies: Caphouse Colliery and Thwaite Mills' in 1990. She went on to become the director of the National Coal Mining Museum, and became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 4 April 2005.[5] On 27 November 2009 she received an OBE for services to industrial heritage, particularly due to her work at the Coal Mining Museum.[6] She retired from her role as director of the National Coal Mining Museum in October 2015.[7]
'The Location and Relationship of the Sancton Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries', The Antiquaries Journal, 56 (1976), 227–33, doi:10.1017/S0003581500064702
'British Survival in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria', in Studies in Celtic Survival, ed. by L. Laing, British Archaeological Reports, British Series, 37 (Oxford: BAR, 1977), pp. 1–55.
'Place-Names and Past Landscapes', Journal of the English Place-Name Society, 11 (1978–79), 24–46
'The Use of Place-Names in Reconstructing the Historic Landscape, Illustrated by Names from Adel Township', Landscape History, 1 (1979), 34–43, doi:10.1080/01433768.1979.10594338
and Richard T. Smith, 'Phosphate Analysis and Three Possible Dark Age Ecclesiastical Sites in Yorkshire', Landscape History, 2 (1980), 21–38, doi:10.1080/01433768.1980.10594344
'The Pre-Conquest Ecclesiastical Pattern', in West Yorkshire: An Archaeological Survey to A.D. 1500, ed. by M. L. Faull and S. A. Moorhouse, 4 vols (Wakefield: West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council, 1981), pp. 210–23 ISBN0861810015
'Roman and Anglo-Saxon Settlement Patterns in Yorkshire: A Computer-Generated Analysis', Landscape History, 5 (1983), 21–40, doi:10.1080/01433768.1983.10594370
'Late Anglo-Saxon Settlement Patterns in Yorkshire', in Studies in Late Anglo-Saxon Settlement, ed. by M. L. Faull (Oxford, 1984), pp. 129–42
'Settlement and Society in North East England in the Fifth Century', in Settlement and Society in the Roman North, ed. by P. R. Wilson, R. F. J. Jones and D. M. Evans (Bradford: University of Bradford, 1984), pp. 49–56
Domesday Book: Yorkshire, ed. by M. L. Faull and Marie Stinson, Domesday Book: A Survey of the Counties of England, 30 (Chichester: Phillimore, 1986), ISBN9780850335316
'The Decoration of the South Doorway of Ledsham Church Tower', Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 139 (1986), 143–47, doi:10.1179/jba.1986.139.1.143
'The Conversion of Thwaite Mills and Caphouse Colliery into Working Industrial Museums to Demonstrate the Impact of the Development of Technology on Society’, in The History of Technology, Science and Society, 1750-1914, ed. by R. Schofield (Belfast, 1988), pp. 1–32
‘National Coal Mining Museums: Fossilised Monuments or Leaders of our Future?’, Mining History: The Bulletin of the Peak District Mines Historical Society, 17. 4 (winter 2009), 100–8.
'Coal Mining, the Yorkshire Landscape and the Yorkshire Mining Museum', Society for Landscape Studies Newsletter (summer 1991), 3–7
'Case Study: Thwaite Mills, Leeds', in A New Head of Steam: Industrial History in the Museum, ed. by R. Clark (Edinburgh, 1992), pp. 29–30
and L. Orme, ‘The National Coal Mining Museum for England: The Preservation of the Coal-Mining Landscape’, Society for Landscape Studies Newsletter (autumn/winter 2003), 9–10
'Coal Mining and the Landscape of England, 1700 to the Present Day', Landscape History, 30 (2008), 59–74, doi:10.1080/01433768.2008.10594600
'Indigenous Australian Land management before the European Settlement in 1788: A Review Article', Landscape History, 35 (2014), 67–79, doi:10.1080/01433768.2014.981396
