Dame Rosemary Cramp was Professor Emerita of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology at Durham University. Following an MLitt and position as Fellow and Lecturer at St Anne’s college, Oxford, she joined Durham University in 1955 and was instrumental in the founding of the Department of Archaeology. She specialised in the archaeology and art of the Anglo-Saxon era, with extensive contributions in archaeology and heritage, most notably excavations of the twin monastery of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow, Hirsel and the founding of the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture. She published widely in the fields of early medieval archaeology, art, architecture and literature in numerous academic journals and series. She served the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, the British Museum, Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission England (latterly Historic England), the Archaeological Data Service and the Council for British Archaeology and was President of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2001-2004 and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2006. Due to ill health she was unable to complete the East Midlands volume and passed away on the 28th April 2023. Jane Hawkes is Professor Emerita of Medieval Art History at the University of York. Following her doctorate at the University of Newcastle on Anglo-Saxon sculpture, she held academic posts at Newcastle, Edinburgh, Cork and York, where she specialised in the extant art of pre-Norman Britain and Ireland and other artistic traditions from late antique and early medieval Europe, as well as the historiography of Anglo-Saxon sculpture. She has taught widely in Anglo-Saxon studies (art, architecture, archaeology, palaeography, language and literature), English Medieval Literature and the art and architecture of late antiquity and medieval Europe. She was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in May 2000. Joanna Story is Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leicester. Following a PhD in History at Durham University in 1995, she joined Leicester as a lecturer in 1996 becoming professor in 2011. She specialises principally within the period 600–900CE, covering the early English kingdoms, Francia, and Italy and connections between them, with emphasis on the material culture of the written word, manuscript and epigraphic evidence as well as sculpture, coinage and archaeology. Her projects and publications range widely, covering the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I, on Old St Peter's, Rome and The Impact of Diasporas in the Making of Britain: Evidence, Memories, Inventions (2011–2017). She worked with the British Library on their recent major exhibition, Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Art, Word, War and her current research centres on Insular Manuscripts AD 600–850 with most recently the launch of a 5-year project on Insular Manuscripts in the Age of Charlemagne funded by an ERC Advanced Grant that is transforming understanding of scripts, scribes and scholars in post-Roman Europe through interdisciplinary investigations.
