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

social history Social history, often called history from below, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. Historians who write social history are called social historians. Social history came to prominence in the 1960s, spreading f ...

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 private day school located in Frizinghall, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Entrance is by examination. For the sixth form admission is based on GCSE results. The school gives means-tested ...

and

St John's College, Oxford St John's College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, 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 foun ...

, 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 Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

''.

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 Sir James Stansfeld, ( ; 5 March 182017 February 1898) was a British Radical and Liberal politician and social reformer who served as Under-Secretary of State for India (1866), Financial Secretary to the Treasury (1869–71) and Preside ...

: 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 Coll ...

*'' 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 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. Foot was the a ...

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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