Debby Banham
Debby Banham | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Early Medieval English social history |
Sub-discipline | Food production, diet, medicine, sign language |
| Institutions | Birkbeck, University of London Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic |
Debby Banham is a British historian of early medieval England, specialising in food production, diet, and medicine. She has published on Anglo-Saxon farming and food and drink, as well as on medieval sign language.
Biography
[edit]After having worked as an agricultural labourer,[1] Banham received a Diploma in Advanced Education from the University of Nottingham and her PhD from Newnham College, Cambridge.[2] In 1987, she and Jane Renfrew instigated the creation of an Anglo-Saxon Herb Garden at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.[3]
Until 2018, she taught palaeography, Latin, and Anglo-Saxon history at Birkbeck College, London. She has also been a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London.[4]
She returned to Newnham College in 2007 as Special Supervisor in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.[2] Her other roles at the University of Cambridge have included Affiliated Lecturer in Palaeography and Anglo-Saxon History in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic; Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science; Director of Studies at Lucy Cavendish and Murray Edwards Colleges; and Assistant Tutor and Postgraduate Mentor at Newnham College.[4][5]
She has been a research associate at the Cambridge Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine and the Thorndike and Kibre project, and worked with Martha Bayless on the Early English Bread Project.[4]
She has been honoured with a panel at the 2018 Leeds International Medieval Congress[6] and a festschrift, Cultivating the Earth, Nurturing the Body and Soul: Daily Life in Early Medieval England (2025).[7]
Select publications
[edit]- Banham, Debby; Faith, Rosamond (2014). Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-920794-7.
- Banham, Debby (2004). Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon England. Tempus. ISBN 978-0-7524-2909-0.
- Banham, Debby (1991). Monasteriales Indicia: The Anglo-Saxon Monastic Sign Language. Anglo-Saxon Books. ISBN 978-0-9516209-4-6.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Dr Debby Banham | Murray Edwards College". www.murrayedwards.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-10-05.
- 1 2 "Debby Banham | Newnham College". newn.cam.ac.uk. 2024-02-13. Retrieved 2025-06-06.
- ↑ Richardson, Tim (2019-10-08). Cambridge College Gardens. White Lion Publishing. p. 167. ISBN 978-0-7112-3851-0.
- 1 2 3 Voth, Christine (2025), "Introduction", Cultivating the Earth, Nurturing the Body and Soul: Daily Life in Early Medieval England, History of Daily Life, vol. 12, Brepols Publishers, pp. 9–17, doi:10.1484/m.hdl-eb.5.143378, ISBN 978-2-503-61193-8, retrieved 2025-06-06
- ↑ "Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic". www.asnc.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-06-06.
- ↑ "International Medieval Congress". www.imc.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-06-06.
- ↑ "Brepols - Cultivating the Earth, Nurturing the Body and Soul: Daily Life in Early Medieval England". www.brepols.net. Retrieved 2025-06-06.
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- Living people
- Alumni of the University of Nottingham
- Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge
- Academics of the University of Cambridge
- Social historians
- British women medievalists
- 20th-century British historians
- 21st-century British historians
- 20th-century British women writers
- 21st-century British women writers
- Historians of England
- Anglo-Saxon studies scholars
- English medievalists
- Academics of Birkbeck, University of London
- Academics of Queen Mary University of London