The Joan Skinner Archive Nineteenth and twentieth centuries
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Skinner, Joan S.
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Dr Joan S. Skinner (1923-2006) was a highly respected industrial historian, author and campaigner to preserve Leicester's Victorian and Edwardian heritage. She married in 1948 and moved to Leicester in 1950, as a result of her husband's work. When her marriage broke up in 1964, she worked as a dressmaker, following in her mother's footsteps, and brought up her three sons and a niece. She found work in the new Biochemistry department of the University of Leicester, founded in 1960, and became per...
