About

Dr Gabrielle Storey is a historian of medieval history, specialising in queenship in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Gabrielle completed her PhD in Medieval History at the University of Winchester in 2020, with her thesis “Co-Rulership, Co-operation and Competition: Queenship in the Emerging Angevin Domains, 1135-1230.” Her first book, a biography of Berengaria of Navarre, queen of England, was published with Routledge in 2024. Gabrielle is passionate about the histories of co-rulership, queenship, gender, and sexuality, and perceptions of power.

She is currently an Early Career Member of the Royal Historical Society and Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Gabrielle was the ECR Editorial Intern (2021-22) for the Historical Association’s History journal, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Winchester (2021-24).

Gabrielle is very interested in public engagement with history and recently starred in Channel 4’s A History of Royal Scandals and Queens That Changed the World as an expert on Eleanor of Aquitaine. Her public engagement work includes a biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine for BBC History Revealed magazine, and participation on the BBC Sounds You’re Dead To Me podcast on the same topic. She has also taken part in the podcasts History Extra, Rex Factor and History Hack on the Angevin monarchy. She was the Chair for the London Society for Medieval Studies at the Institute of Historical Research, UK. Gabrielle has taught at university level for eight years, and is committed to engaging both scholars and public with history. She is the founder, digital content officer, and co-contributor of Team Queens (2020-22), an educational history blog focussed on global queenship.

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