Barbara E. Crawford

Barbara Elizabeth Crawford OBE FRSE FSA FSAScot is a British historian. She is a leading authority on the mediaeval history of the Northern Isles of Scotland and Norwegian-Scottish 'frontier' and relations across the North Sea. She is Honorary Reader in Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews, and Honorary Professor at the University of the Highlands and Islands. She was awarded an OBE for services to History and Archaeology in 2011. She became a Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1997 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001.

Crawford is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London since 1964 and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland since 1974, serving as President from 2008-2011. She has studied place names in the Norse and Celtic 'border' in Northern Scotland, the cult of St Clement in England, Scotland and Scandinavia, and excavations and reconstructions on Papa Stour, working with Scottish, Polish and Scandinavian collaborators, as well as a wide range of mediaeval northern history.