John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond (18 July 1872 – 7 April 1949) was a British journalist and writer on

social history Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...

and politics. A number of his best-known works were jointly written with his wife,

Barbara Hammond 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 I ...

(née Bradby, 1873–1961). She was the sister of poet and novelist

G. F. Bradby Godfrey Fox Bradby (1863–1947) was a schoolmaster at Rugby School, who also had a wide-ranging literary career. He wrote poems, novels, literary criticism and hymns. Life and career Born 1863, the son of Revd. Edward Henry Bradby (1826–1893) ...

. He was educated at

Bradford Grammar School Bradford Grammar School (BGS) is a co-educational independent day school located in Frizinghall, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Entrance is by examination, except for the sixth form, where admission is based on GCSE results. The school g ...

and

St John's College, Oxford St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to pro ...

, where he read classics. He was editor of the Liberal weekly ''The Speaker'' from 1899 to 1906. He was the leader-writer for ''The Tribune'' in 1906–1907 and for ''The Daily News'' in 1907. He was later on the staff of the ''

Manchester Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

''.

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 via Archive.org
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. Toynbee Arnold Joseph Toynbee (; 14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's Colleg ...

*'' C. P. Scott 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 Charles Edward Montague (1 January 1867 – 28 May 1928) was an English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays. Biography Montague was born and brought up in London, the son of an Irish Roman Catholic priest who had left his ...

and H. D. Scott Nichols *''Gladstone and Liberalism'' (1952) with

M. R. D. Foot Michael Richard Daniell Foot, (14 December 1919 – 18 February 2012) was a British political and military historian, and former British Army intelligence officer with the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. Biography The ...

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hammond, Jl 1872 births 1949 deaths British historians British male journalists British writers People educated at Bradford Grammar School Alumni of St John's College, Oxford