Debby Banham is a medieval historian, trained in the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and Archaeology Departments at the University of Cambridge. After her PhD on Anglo-Saxon diet she took a diploma in Adult Education at Nottingham University. She currently teaches Anglo-Saxon history, Latin and palaeography for Birkbeck College, London and the Cambridge colleges as well as the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. She has worked on the ‘electronic Thorndike and Kibre’ project, cataloguing the contents of medieval scientific manuscripts. Her main research interests include Anglo-Saxon medicine, diet and agriculture, and monastic sign language. Among her publications are an edition of the Monasteriales indicia (the Old English sign list) and Food and Drink in Anglo Saxon England(Tempus, 2004).