Barbara Gold Taylor FRHistS (born 11 April 1950) is a Canadian-born historian based in the United Kingdom, specialising in the Enlightenment, gender studies and the history of subjectivity.
She taught history at the University of East London from 1993 until 2012 and then moved to Queen Mary, University of London, as joint professor of the schools of English & Drama, and History.
[3] She has received research grants and fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, the Nuffield Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation (1996), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Wellcome Trust.
[3] Taylor has written a biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, the early English feminist and republican,[4][5] and continues to speak on her life.
She spoke about her in 2009 at Newington Green Unitarian Church as part of the 250th anniversary of Wollstonecraft's birth.