Post by Joseph Hornsby

I'm delighted to be graduating with First Class Honours in History from Durham University, before joining the Transactions and M&A Financial Investors Tax Team at Deloitte in early September. Parallel to holding a Choral Scholarship at University College, Durham University and touring the UK, Lisbon, and Porto with Durham University Chamber Choir, a particular highlight of my work was to be awarded a mark of 82% for a dissertation in Early Medieval Iberian manuscript studies. My research interrogates the textual and iconographic scheme of the Girona Recension (975) of the Beatus Commentary on the Apocalypse as a response to both the Umayyad Conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (c.711) and the Iberian Adoptionist Controversy (c.772-795) and more widely proposes a novel stemmatic relationship between codices of the Apocalypse produced across the monastic scriptoria of Asturias and Carolingian Gaul between 776-975 AD. Looking ahead, I'm excited to be moving to join the Transactions and M&A Financial Investors Tax Team at Deloitte, specialising in recapitalisation, M&A and transfer pricing across transaction cycles. Very much looking forward to working with Chris Green and the brilliant team based across Reading, London and Cambridge.