Late last year I heard the sad news of the death of Nicola Verdon who 'completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Sussex before moving to Leicester for her MA, completed in 1995, and subsequent PhD.
'She held various lecturing positions since completing her
doctorate in 1999, including at Harlaxton College, the University of Reading
and the University of Sussex. In January 2011 she took up the position of
Reader in History at Sheffield Hallam and was appointed Professor of Modern
British History there in 2018.
'Her research interests focused on life and labour in the
British countryside in the 19th and 20th centuries and she had published many
journal articles and book chapters on women’s and children’s work in
agriculture, on poverty and standards of living, and on family life on British
farms, and was the author of two books, Rural Women Workers in 19th
century England (Boydell, 2002) and Working the Land: A
History of the Farmworker in England from 1850 to the Present Day (Palgrave,
2017)'
A review of Nicola's book Working the Land: A History of the Farmworker in England from 1850 to the Present Day was written by myself in 2018
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