BELLAMY, Joyce (M.) 1921-2002

PERSONAL: Born June 12, 1921, in Kettering, Northampshire, England; died February 27, 2002; daughter of Dennis and Edith Alice (Bailey) Bellamy. Education: University of London, B.Com., 1941; University of Hull, Ph.D., 1966.

CAREER: Hull Corporation, housing department, 1941-44; Ministry of Town and Country Planning, Leeds, England, researcher, 1944-48; University of Hull, Hull, England, department of economics and social history, research assistant, 1948-71, senior research officer, 1971-85.

WRITINGS:

(Compiler) A Hundred Years of Pharmacy in Hull, Hull University Department of Economics and Commerce (Hull, England), 1968.

(Editor) Yorkshire Business Histories: A Bibliography, Bradford University Press (London, England), 1970.

(With John Saville) Dictionary of Labour Biography, ten volumes, Macmillan (London, England), 1972—.

Author of articles on business history, trade, and shipping of the nineteenth century.

SIDELIGHTS: In the ten-volume series Dictionary of Labour Biography, Joyce Bellamy and John Saville provide short biographies on individuals who were involved in the Labour movement. "The launching of the dictionary has been an important event in the study of British labor history," noted American Historical Review contributor I. J. Prothero.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Historical Review, April, 1979, I. J. Prothero, review of Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume 4, p. 454.

American Reference Books Annual, Volume 10, 1979, David Rosenbaum, review of Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume 4, pp. 269-270.

Booklist, September 15, 1974, review of Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume 1, p. 112.

Choice, March, 1973, review of Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume 1, p. 56; June, 1977, review of Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume 3, pp. 509-510; May, 1978, review of Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume 4, p. 369.

English Historical Review, July, 1982, review of Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume 5, p. October, 1985, H. C. G. Matthew, review of Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volumes 6-7, p. 947.

Journal of Economic History, June, 1979, David Mitch, review of Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volumes 3-4, p. 519.

New Statesman, June 2, 1972, review of Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume 1, p. 754.

Reference Services Review, October, 1973, review of Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume 1, p. 41; July, 1981, George Schoyer, review of Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volumes 1-5, p. 69.

Times Literary Supplement, August 23, 1974, Stephen Koss, "Socialists and Anti-Socialists," p. 894; March, 1977, Stephen Koss, review of Dictionary of Labour Biography, Volume 3, p. 380.*