Barbara Fitzgerald Harvey (born 1928) is a British medieval historian. She was the joint winner of the Wolfson History Prize in 1993 for her book ''Living and Dying in England 1100–1540: The Monastic Experience'', which examines the lives of monks at

Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Since 1066, it has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British m ...

, one of England's greatest medieval monasteries. Since 1993 she has been emeritus fellow of

Somerville College, Oxford Somerville College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. It was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. It began admitting men in 1994. The colle ...

. In 1982 she was elected a

Fellow of the British Academy Fellowship of the British Academy (post-nominal letters FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. The categories are: # Fellows – scholars resident in t ...

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1928 births Living people British medievalists British women medievalists Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford Fellows of the British Academy Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century British historians 20th-century British women writers 21st-century British historians 21st-century British women writers Wolfson History Prize winners {{UK-historian-stub