Audrey Eccles Author

Audrey Eccles, a retired archivist, gained her PhD in 1974 for work on the history of obstetrics, published in 1982 by Croom Helm. She began working on vagrancy while calendaring the eighteenth century Quarter Sessions rolls at Kendal Record Office, Cumbria, and has subsequently researched the subject in five other counties. Her pilot study was published in 1989 and she has written a number of papers on vagrancy since.