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Liza Picard

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January 01, 1927 in The United Kingdom

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Liza Picard was born in 1927. She read law at the London School of Economics and qualified as a barrister, but did not practise. She spent many years working in the office of the Solicitor of the Inland Revenue and lived in Gray’s Inn and Hackney, before retiring to live in Oxford.

Her legal training encouraged her to seek original evidence, rather than rely on other peoples' research. This she says ‘is always to be recommended. It’s hard work but can be fascinating.’ Restoration London, the result of many years' interest and research into London life, was her first book.

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Books by Liza Picard

Average rating: 4.02 · 678 ratings · 74 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Victorian London 4.02 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London 3.91 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Dr. Johnson's London: Coffee-Houses and Climbing Boys, Medicine, Toothpaste and Gin, Poverty and Press-Gangs, Freakshows and Female Education 4.08 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Restoration London 4.15 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	My rating:

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“I am not a properly trained historian. I am a lawyer by trade, and an inquisitive, practical woman by character.”
― Liza Picard

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