Background
Joan Peel was born in 1915, a direct descendant of the 19th-century prime minister, Robert Peel.
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Career
They entered into a close partnership in their work, which continued until Brian"s death in January 2002. In the Autumn of 1958 Brian was one of the founders of FORUM, a journal devoted to educational issues. She published articles in FORUM in 1964 and 1965 describing developments in comprehensive education in Bradford, Sheffield, Liverpool and Manchester.
In 1973 the magazine published a pamphlet written by Joan titled Indictment of Margaret Thatcher, Secretary of State 1970–1973.
In 1986 she published a biography of her mother in law, Shena Simon, who had been active in education reform in England in the 1930s and 1940s. Joan Simon continued to work until a few months before her death in 2005.
In 2007 the journal History of Education posthumously published her last article: An "energetic and controversial" historian of education yesterday and today: A. F. Leach (1851–1915).
