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.
Banham received a Diploma in Advanced Education from the University of Nottingham and her PhD from Newnham College,Cambridge. [1] In 1987,she and Jane Renfrew instigated the creation of an Anglo-Saxon Herb Garden at Lucy Cavendish College,Cambridge. [2]
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. [3]
She returned to Newnham College in 2007 as Special Supervisor in Anglo-Saxon,Norse and Celtic. [1] 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. [3] [4]
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. [3]
She has been honoured with a panel at the 2018 Leeds International Medieval Congress [5] and a festschrift,Cultivating the Earth,Nurturing the Body and Soul:Daily Life in Early Medieval England (2025). [6]