| Victoria Whitworth | |
| Birth Name: | Victoria Thompson |
| Birth Date: | 1966 |
| Birth Place: | London |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | St Anne's College, Oxford University of York |
| Genre: | non-fiction |
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Victoria (V.M.) Whitworth (née Thompson; born in London 1966[1]) is a British writer, archaeologist and art historian. Her published writings, which focus on Britain in the later first millennium AD, include novels, academic works and a memoir.
Whitworth studied English (specialising in Medieval languages, literature and archaeology) at St Anne's College, Oxford, before doing an MA and a D.Phil. in York. From 2012 to 2016 she was a lecturer at the Centre for Nordic Studies on the Orkney campus of the University of the Highlands and Islands. Her research has primarily focused on Pictish, Scottish and Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. Whitworth has published three historical novels set in Viking Age England.[2] On 27 September 2020 a letter in support of JK Rowling for her stance on transgender issues was published in the Sunday Times to which Whitworth was one of 58 signatories.[3]