Barbara Yorke

Barbara Yorke (born 1951, Barbara Anne Elizabeth Troubridge) is a historian of Anglo-Saxon England, specialising in many subtopics, including 19th-century Anglo-Saxonism. She is currently emeritus professor of early Medieval history at the University of Winchester, and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is an honorary professor of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London.

Biography

Barbara Yorke, then Troubridge, attended Horsham High School for Girls.

A conference Saints, Rulers and Landscapes in Early Medieval Wessex was held in honour of Yorke's retirement at the Wessex Centre for History & Archaeology at the University of Winchester in September 2014. Some of the papers were published along with additional material as a Festschrift, The Land of the English Kin, edited by Ryan Lavelle and Alexander Langlands, both former students of Yorke.

Appointments Yorke has held several high-profile academic appointments including

Vice-President of the Royal Archaeological Institute Board of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Council of the Society of Antiquaries Member of the Fabric Advisory Committee to Winchester Cathedral

Selected publications Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England. London, Seaby, 1990. Wessex in the Early Middle Ages. Continuum International, 1995. Bishop Aethelwold: His Career and Influence. The Boydell Press, 1997. The Anglo-Saxons. Sutton, 1999. The Millenary Celebrations of King Alfred in Winchester 1901. Hampshire Papers 17 (Winchester, 1999) Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses. Continuum International, 2003. “Alfredism: The Use and Abuse of King Alfred’s Reputation in Later Centuries,” in Alfred the Great. Papers from the Eleventh-Centenary Conferences, ed. Timothy Reuter (Aldershot, 2003), pp. 361–80 The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 600–800. Longman, 2006. “The ‘Old North’ From the Saxon South in Ninteteenth-Century Britain,” in Anglo-Saxons and the North, ed. Matti Kilpiö, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, Jane Roberts, and Olga Timofeeva (Tempe, AZ, 2009), pp. 131–50.