John Lawrence Hammond
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John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond (July 18, 1872 – April 7, 1949) was a British journalist and writer on social history
and politics. A number of his best-known works were jointly written with his wife, Barbara Hammond (née Bradby, 1873–1961).
He was educated at Bradford Grammar School
and St John's College, Oxford
, where he read classics. He was editor of the Liberal weekly The Speaker from 1899 to 1906. He was later on the staff of the Manchester Guardian.
Social history
Social history, often called the new social history, is a branch of History that includes history of ordinary people and their strategies of coping with life. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in history departments...
and politics. A number of his best-known works were jointly written with his wife, Barbara Hammond (née Bradby, 1873–1961).
He was educated at Bradford Grammar School
Bradford Grammar School
Bradford Grammar School is a co-educational, independent school in Frizinghall, Bradford, West Yorkshire. Headmaster, Stephen Davidson is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference . The school was founded in 1548 and granted its Charter by King Charles II in 1662...
and St John's College, Oxford
St John's College, Oxford
__FORCETOC__St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford, one of the larger Oxford colleges with approximately 390 undergraduates, 200 postgraduates and over 100 academic staff. It was founded by Sir Thomas White, a merchant, in 1555, whose heart is buried in the chapel of...
, where he read classics. He was editor of the Liberal weekly The Speaker from 1899 to 1906. He was later on the staff of the Manchester Guardian.
Works
- Charles James Fox a Political Study (1903)
- The Village Labourer 1760-1832: a Study of the Government of England before the Reform Bill (1911) with Barbara Hammond
- The Town Labourer 1760-1832: The New Civilisation (1917) with Barbara Hammond
- The Skilled Labourer 1760-1832 (1919) with Barbara Hammond
- The Terror in Action: A Graphic Sketch of Irish Policy from 1914-1921 (1921)
- Lord Shaftesbury (1923) with Barbara Hammond
- The Rise of Modern Industry (1925) with Barbara Hammond
- The Age of the Chartists 1832-1854: A Study of Discontent (1930) with Barbara Hammond
- James Stansfeld: A Victorian Champion of Sex Equality (1932) with Barbara Hammond
- Britain and the Modern World Order (1932) with Arnold J. ToynbeeArnold J. ToynbeeArnold Joseph Toynbee CH was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934–1961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined history from a global...
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of the Manchester Guardian(1934) - The Bleak Age: England 1800-1850 (1934) with Barbara Hammond
- Gladstone and the Irish Nation (1934)
- C. P. Scott, 1846 - 1932. The Making of the Manchester Guardian (1946) with C. E. Montague and H. D. Scott Nichols
- Gladstone and Liberalism (1952) with M. R. D. Foot
- Hammond's Family Reference World Atlas (1960) with Barbara Hammond