Vanessa Harding is professor of London history at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research has focused on death and burial in London and Paris and she has written widely on the subject in academic journals and in book form.
Professor Vanessa Harding is based at the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Her main areas of research lie in medieval and early modern London, particularly in the interaction of social life and physical environment.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Medieval and early modern London
Urban health and disease, including plague
Early modern housing, households and family
Death and burial
Archives, records, and record publishing