![]() ![]() ![]() Liza was the author of four highly successful, bestselling and critically acclaimed books about London’s history, Restoration London, Dr Johnson’s London, Elizabeth’s London (a Sunday Times bestseller) and Victorian London, all published by W&N in the UK and St. I am a lawyer by trade, and an inquisitive, practical woman by character.” In an interview in the Guardian, she told John Cunningham “I am not a properly trained historian. Only after her retirement did Liza begin to write the kind of social history books that she had been trying to find: books that described the everyday life of ordinary London people – if people are ever ‘ordinary’. She was called to the bar by Gray’s Inn in 1949 but never practised after various jobs, including a spell in East Africa in the Colonial legal service, she found a job in the Solicitor’s Office of the Inland Revenue, where she stayed until her retirement in 1987. Liza Picard (1927-2022) was born in Essex and read law at the London School of Economics. ![]()
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