She contributed to an episode of BBC Radio 4's In Our Time on the life of St Cuthbert, broadcast in January 2021. She is an editor of the Oxford History of Historical Writing. Ordained ministry From 2007 to 2017, Foot was a lay canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. During this time, she felt the call to ordination. She trained for Holy Orders on the Oxford Ministry Course, a part-time course taught at Ripon College Cuddesdon. On 1 July 2017, she was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon by Steven Croft, the Bishop of Oxford. On 21 December 2017, she was ordained as a priest by Colin Fletcher, the Bishop of Dorchester. Since 2017, she has been a residentiary canon of Christ Church Cathedral in the Diocese of Oxford. She was also a non-stipendiary minister at Christ Church Cathedral from 2017 to 2019. Personal life In 1986, Foot married Geoff Schrecker: they divorced in 1999. Together they had one son. In 2002, she married Michael Bentley, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. Honours In 2001, Foot was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). On 14 June 2001, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA). She served as President of the Ecclesiastical History Society from 2011 to 2012. Selected works Handbook of Historical Theory, Sarah Foot and Nancy F. Partner (eds.), London, Sage 2012. Æthelstan: The First English King, New Haven, Yale University Press 2011. "The Bishops of Selsey and the Creation of a Diocese in Sussex" in: Paul Foster and Rachel Moriarty (eds.), Chichester – The Palace and Its Bishops Otter Memorial Paper Number 27. Chichester: University of Chichester, 2011, pp. 90–101 "Patrick Wormald as Historian", in: Stephen Baxter, Catherine E. Karkov, Janet L. Nelson and David Pelteret (eds.), Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, Farnham, Ashgate 2009. "Where English Becomes British: Rethinking Contexts for Brunanburh", in: Julia Barrow and Andrew Wareham (eds.), Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks, London, Ashgate 2008. Monastic life in Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600–900, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 2006. "Reading Anglo-Saxon Charters: Memory, Record or Story?", in: Elizabeth M. Tyler and Ross Balzaretti (eds.), Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West, Abingdon, Marston 2006. "Finding the Meaning of Form: Narrative in Annals and Chronicles" in: Nancy F. Partner (ed.), Writing Medieval History