Joyce Margaret Bellamy

Background

Joyce M. Bellamy was born on June 12, 1921, in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom. She was the daughter of Dennis and Edith Alice Bellamy.

Education

In 1941 Joyce M. Bellamy received a Bachelor of Communication degree from the University of London. In 1966 she obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Hull.

Career

From 1941 to 1944 Joyce M. Bellamy worked in the housing department at Hull Corporation. From 1944 to 1948 he was a researcher at the Ministry of Town and Country Planning in Leeds, England. From 1948 to 1971 Bellamy served as a research assistant in the department of economics and social history at the University of Hull, and a senior research officer from 1971 to 1985.

She was a compiler of A Hundred Years of Pharmacy in Hull (1968), an editor of Yorkshire Business Histories: A Bibliography (1970), and of Dictionary of Labour Biography (1972-2000). In the ten-volume series Dictionary of Labour Biography, Joyce Bellamy and John Saville provide short biographies on individuals who were involved in the Labour movement. Bellamy was the author of articles on business history, trade, and shipping of the nineteenth century.

Achievements

• Joyce Bellamy is best remembered as the editor of the ten-volume series Dictionary of Labour Biography. It has an outstanding reputation as a reference work for the study of nineteenth and twentieth-century British history.

Works

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  • Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume IX

    (Includes radicals of the Chartist and earlier periods, tr...)

    1993
  • Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume II 1974
  • Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume III 1976
  • Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume V 1979
  • Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume VI 1982
  • Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume VII 1984
  • Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume VIII 1987
  • Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume X 2000

Connections

Father:

Denis Bellamy

Mother:

Edith Alice Bellamy

References

• Contemporary Authors
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