Barbara Hammond

Barbara Hammond
Chalk portrait by W. Rothenstein in 1908[1]
"intensely penetrating blue eyes and ... beautifully abundant, copper-red hair"[2]
Born
Lucy Barbara Bradby

(1873-07-25)25 July 1873[2]
Died16 November 1961(1961-11-16) (aged 88)[2]
St Paul's Hospital, Hemel Hempstead,[2] England
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Occupationsocial historian
OrganizationWomen's Industrial Council[2]
Known forThe Labourer trilogy

Lucy Barbara Hammond (née Bradby, 1873–1961) was an English social historian who researched and wrote many influential books with her husband, John Lawrence Hammond, including the Labourer trilogy about the impact of enclosure and the Industrial Revolution upon the lives of workers.[3]