Wendy Elizabeth Davies OBE FBA FSA FLSW (born 1942) is an emerita professor of history at University College London, England.
Following positions in Munich and Birmingham University (1970–76), she returned to UCL as a lecturer in medieval history in 1977.
[2] In 1979, Davies established the "Bucknell group", also known as the "Woolstone group", a coterie of early medieval historians who would convene regularly to share ideas, comprising Ian Wood, Leslie Brubaker, Ann Christys, Roger Collins, Marios Costambeys, Paul Fouracre, David Ganz, Rosemary Morris, Jinty Nelson, Tim Reuter, Richard Sharpe, Jo Story, Chris Wickham, Jenny Wormald, and Patrick Wormald.
She has a special interest in the economic and social structure of Western European pre-industrial rural communities and the ways in which they used land and for fifteen years ran, with Dr Grenville Astill, the "East Brittany Survey", a multidisciplinary research programme into settlement and land-use changes.
[7] She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.