Betty Wood

Betty C. Wood
Born23 February 1945
Melton Constable, Norfolk, England
Died3 September 2021(2021-09-03) (aged 76)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsGirton College, Cambridge
Faculty of History, University of Cambridge

Betty C. Wood (23 February 1945 – 3 September 2021) was a British historian and academic, who specialised in early American history, Atlantic history, social history, and slavery in eighteenth and early nineteenth century. She was a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge (1971–2011) and taught in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, rising to become Reader in American History.