Penelope Summerfield, FBA, FRHistS, FAcSS (born 1951), commonly known as Penny Summerfield, is an English historian and retired academic.
She attended the University of Sussex, graduating with a BA in 1973, an MA in 1976 and a DPhil in 1982.
[2] Summerfield was a research assistant and tutor at Durham University from 1976 to 1978.
[7] She was married to the management studies academic and Lancaster University professor Mark Easterby-Smith, with whom she had two children before they divorced;[1][8] their daughter is the historian Sarah Easterby-Smith.
[10][11] She is the sister of British psychologist Quentin Summerfield.