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Royal recognition for University of St Andrews historian.
Thursday 27 October 2011
University of St Andrews academic and author, Dr Barbara Crawford has been awarded the OBE. She was granted the honour by the Princess Royal at Buckingham Palace, for her services to history and archaeology.
Since retiring from the University of St Andrews after more than three decades teaching, Dr Crawford is now an honorary reader and has continued to pursue her researches into the history and archaeology of Scandinavian settlements in Scotland.
A member of the Norwegian Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, she was a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland from 1991 – 2001 and is currently President of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
Professor John Hudson of the University of St Andrews School of History commented “Dr Barbara Crawford is an eminent historian of Scandinavian Scotland in the Middle Ages and of contacts between Scotland and Scandinavia. She was for many years a distinguished and popular teachers at the University and all at St Andrews would like to congratulate her on her achievement in winning an OBE”.