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Joan Thirsk
Irene Joan Thirsk, CBE, FBA, FRHistS (née ''Watkins''; 19 June 1922 – 3 October 2013〔), was a British economic and social historian, specialising in the history of agriculture. She was one of the leading economic and social historians of the 20th century, greatly influencing the methodology and direction of research. Her most prominent contribution was to pioneer the use of local manuscripts as a source.
==Life==
During the Second World War Joan Watkins worked as an intelligence analyst at Bletchley Park, providing information that assisted Hut 6 in the breaking of the Enigma ciphers and added substantially to the substance of the subsequent intelligence reports. She worked in the Sixta traffic analysis group alongside her future husband Jimmy.〔James Thirsk, ''Bletchley Park: An Inmate's Story'', M & M Baldwin, Cleobury Mortimer, 2012〕
Her academic career began with assistant lectureship in sociology at the London School of Economics. She was later senior research fellow at the University of Leicester from 1951 to 65, and reader in economic history at Oxford University between 1975 and 1983. She was the editor of ''The Agrarian History of England and Wales'' (for volumes 4–6) from 1964 to 1972 and in 1974 was appointed general editor of the series.〔Christine S. Hallas, bio entry in ''(Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing )'' (edited by Kelly Boyd) pp. 1184-85〕
She sat on the editorial board of ''Past & Present'' from 1957 to 1992. She was appointed a fellow of the British Academy in 1974 and made a Commander of the British Empire in 1993.
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