Michelle Brown , professor emerita of medieval manuscript studies at the Institute of English Studies ( IES ), is quoted in a Guardian feature on an inscribed seventh-century window ledge unearthed at Tintagel Castle that she has been given the task of deciphering. The story has been covered by more than 120 national, international and local media outlets such as ITV.com ,   Yahoo! UK and Ireland , BBC , Mail Online , Metro , Daily Telegraph Australia , and MSN New Zealand .

Professor Sarah Churchwell’s new book, Behold America: a History of America First and the American Dream, is discussed in a new podcast on the Monocle Culture Show that applauds the public engagement chair’s ‘brilliant, perceptive and astute’ writing.

Dr Ian Stone , research associate at the Institute of Historical Research ( IHR ), explores literary and cultural contacts between medieval London and Southwark in the latest imprint of the  Mediaeval Studies (pp. 205–47) journal. The article, ‘Connections and collaborations between centres of historical writing in thirteenth-century London and Southwark’, sheds new light on the source material used by Arnold fitz Thedmar, the first layman in the British Isles to write a historical account of his time. It also illuminates how Arnold’s work was used after he died in 1274.

Professor Sir David Cannadine, former IHR director, discusses the importance of knowing about the past in the London Evening Standard . Writing under the headline, ‘ Today’s lessons for politicians is to learn from history ,’ he says that whatever the outcome of the Brexit negotiations, Theresa May and her colleagues are making history.