Magdalena Midgley (4 November 1952 – 21 July 2014) was a British archaeologist, and Professor of the European Neolithic at the University of Edinburgh.

[2] By this time she had developed a special interest in the Neolithic period, and in 1985 she completed her Doctoral Thesis on the earthen long barrows of northern Europe.

Midgley was a leading figure in the development of the University of Edinburgh Access courses, providing mature-aged enrolments for undergraduate studies.

[1] Throughout her career, she participated in numerous excavations of prehistoric sites, beginning in her student days in the United Kingdom, and later leading projects spanning the Czech Republic, France, Scotland and Denmark.

In her later years, before her final illness, she was working on two projects: firstly, a development of her earlier study of the TRB culture in the light of recent discoveries and theories; and secondly, a study of the early antiquarians, the emergence of the discipline of Archaeology and its relationship with, and influence on, the artists and writers of the Romantic movement.