Jennifer Gill (1946-2020)

摘要

Jennifer was born in Nottingham on 9 July 1946, the eldest daughter of James and Beatrice Gill. She grew up in the Nottingham suburb of Thorneywood and recalled, from an early age, the pleasure of long summer days lying on the grass, reading, after the morning's foray to the local library in search of new titles. Jennifer's lifelong love of books was inspired by her father, an optician, who had a fondness for Dickens and brought home books by the suitcase load for her to devour. After a grammar school education, she took a London University external general degree (completed at Nottingham Technical College), followed by an MA in Modern Social History at the University of Lancaster in November 1969. For the next two years she worked as a teacher before, inspired by the wealth of her native Nottingham City Archives under Adrian Henstock, deciding on a career in archives. In 1973 she completed a Diploma in Palaeography and Archive Administration at the University of Wales. Her mischievous and infectious chortle enlivened classes if they ever threatened to become dull!