Participant Info
- First Name
- Kate
- Last Name
- Wiles
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- Kate.wiles@sas.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- History Today, Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London
- Website URL
- http://katewiles.wordpress.com
- Keywords
- Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon England, History of English, Old English, Medieval, manuscripts, medieval manuscripts, language, bilingualism, scribes
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- If you wish to pitch to History Today, please email submissions@historytoday.com, do not email my personal email address.
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am Senior Editor at History Today and Associate Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London. I am currently writing Lost Voices: The Languages of Britain for Penguin Press, a history of multilingualism in Britain.
My background is in Linguistics and my PhD research was on Old English and Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. I specialise in linguistics, medieval history, place-names, the history of education, the book and the printed word. I write on medieval history and the history of English for online and print magazines and newspapers.
I am also the historical language consultant for the History Channel/MGM drama, Vikings, and have provided expert advice for history books, radio, and comedy shows.
- Recent Publications
‘The Treatment of Charter Bounds by the Worcester Cartulary Scribes’, New Medieval Literatures, 13 (2011), pp. 113-37
with Robert Gallagher, ‘The Endorsement Practices of Anglo-Saxon England’, The Languages of Early Medieval Charters (Brill, forthcoming)
- Media Coverage
- BBC Radio 3, History Today, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Huffington Post, Times Higher Education, Buzzfeed.
- Social Media
- @katemond
- Country Focus
- England, Britain, UK
- Expertise by Geography
- United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- Medieval
- Expertise by Topic
- Book History, Libraries & Archives, Local & Regional
