Millie Horton-Insch

I am an art historian of early medieval art made in Britain and Ireland. My research focuses on textiles made in 11th- and 12th-century Britain and Ireland, and their relationship to constructions of race and gender around the Norman Conquest. My PhD, which I completed in the History of Art department at University College London in May 2024, was an art historical analysis of the small corpus of extant textiles from this period, titled: ‘Textiles, Gender, and Race in 11th- and 12th-Century Britain’. More broadly, I am interested in the afterlives of medieval objects and their continued (mis-)use in nationalist ideologies. I am presently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, funded by a Leverhulme Study Abroad Studentship.