0:05:07 Later work on Cambridge fens; 1992 published ‘Who were the Fen People’ in Cambridge Antiquarian Society journal, a history of agriculture in the fens; Graham Swift’s book ‘Waterland’; use of census material on Isleham fen; marriage patterns; importance of public houses; population in area reached peak c1851 but by 1861 had declined by 5% in Cambridgeshire, and particularly in the fens; emigration to northern cities and overseas
0:12:50 Interest in “hinterlands” thread through work; incest and opium; Daniel Defoe
0:15:08 Study of middle-class women at Newnham and Girton c1860-1900; demographic effects
0:21:15 Memories of father, A.V. Hill and her mother; rejection by mother; mother a Keynes, sister of Maynard and Geoffrey; John Maynard Keynes and Geoffrey Keynes; own interest in poetry and art
0:32:44 Influenced by Joan Robinson, her supervisor, Thomas Hodgkin and Ivor Wilks; writing methods; own papers now at Africana Library, North-Western University