Professor Barbara Yorke, BA, Phd, FSA, FRHS
Emeritus Professor in Early Medieval History
University of Winchester
Professor Yorke completed both her undergraduate degree and PhD at the University of Exeter.
She has lectured at the University of Winchester since 1977, holding positions such as Director of the
Research Centre of Archaeology and History. She currently holds the position of Emeritus Professor
in Early Medieval History.
Her research interests lie with early medieval British history, with special interests in kingship,
conversion, Wessex, women, religion and 19th-century Anglo-Saxonism. Major publications include
Kings and Kingdoms in Early Anglo-Saxon England, Wessex in the Early Middle Ages and The
Conversion of Britain 600-800. She is currently writing a book on King Alfred for the Pocket Giants
series of the History Press.