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Prisca Greenhow studies the Old Poor Law in Norfolk c1800-1834. Her PhD is a microstudy of the parish of Mattishall. It focuses on the letters written by or for paupers who migrated to look for work and then needed to claim poor relief. This might be because of unemployment, sickness or simply not able to earn enough to pay all their rent, heat their homes, buy clothes and buy food. She has used poor law records and parish records to write seven pauper biographies through which she examines the life-cycle points of the paupers' poor-relief relationship.

= PRISCA GREENHOW = Prisca Greenhow works on The Old Poor Law in Norfolk in the Long Eighteenth Century

Education
Prisca studied for a BA(Hons) History at Anglia Polytechnic University (now Anglia Ruskin) from 1996 to 1999 as a mature student and gained a 2:1. She went on to Cambridge University, Corpus Christi College, Institute of Continuing Education to study for a Master of Studies in Local History. After an 18-year break from studying history, Prisca returned as a PhD candidate with Leicester University in 2017 under the supervision of Steven King.

Career
After leaving school in 1982, Prisca joined the civil service as a Tax Officer until she took a career break in 1991 to look after her two children. It was during this break that she returned to education first taking an Access course. On completion of her MSt, Prisca returned to work and trained as a nurse at Homerton School of Health Studies, Cambridge University.

Public Engagement
'The Pauper Biography of Peter Pantney', Leicester Adult Education Centre, February 2019

'Voices of the Poor: Pauper Letters from Widows of Mattishall' LAEC, July 2019

'Patterns of Migration of Agricultural Labourers in Norfolk', LAEC, November 2019

Conferences
Derby University, September 2019, 'Public Engagement: Using your research in public engagement'

Nottingham Trent University, Novemeber 2019, 'Lives in transit: The movement of people, ideas and identities through history'