Ann Margaret Savours Shirley (9 November 1927 – 8 October 2022) was a British historian of polar exploration, covering both the Arctic and Antarctic.

She was most widely known for her study of Robert Falcon Scott's ship HMS Discovery.

[1] The daughter of Edgar Walter Savours, a civil engineer, and his wife Margaret, a poet and teacher, she earned her bachelor's degree in 1949 with honours at Royal Holloway College, University of London, then went on to study at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she earned a diploma in French civilization in 1950, and studied art at the Burslem School of Art from 1950 to 1951.

In 1970, she became an assistant keeper at the National Maritime Museum, where in 1973 she was appointed custodian of manuscripts.

Savours Shirley served as a member of council of the Royal Geographical Society in 1978–80.