Dr Sally Dormer is an art historian who specialises in the Middle Ages. She studied History at Durham University before moving to the Courtauld Institute of Art, London University, where she completed an MA in Medieval Art History and a PhD on drawings in English illuminated manuscripts 960-1380. After brief stints working as a research assistant in the Department of Palaeography, University of London, and a curator in the Metalwork Department of the Victoria & Albert Museum she started lecturing at the V&A in the mid 1980s and never looked back. She is founder, and Course Director, of the V&A’s Early Medieval Year Course (300-1250), currently delivered on-line, and from 2000 – 2020, she was Dean of European Studies, an American university study abroad programme based in Tennessee, Durham, Oxford, and on the Continent. Sally currently lectures, or has lectured, and led study tours for The Arts Society (formerly NADFAS), the Art Fund, Gresham College, Cox & Kings, Swan Hellenic and Art Pursuits Abroad.