Kirsty Peacock

Kirsty Peacock is a DPhil researcher at Wolfson College, Oxford, specialising in women bank clerks in the City of London from 1870 to 1939. Her interdisciplinary work connects women’s, gender, social, cultural, economic, and business histories. She explores how business needs and technological advancements influenced women's banking opportunities while highlighting women’s own experiences of clerical work in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kirsty aims to develop this research into a monograph.

As a Life-Writing Seminar Support Worker at OCLW, she provides technical and logistical assistance for the weekly Visiting Researcher seminars, ensuring the smooth operation of hybrid events and promoting discussions at the forefront of life writing as a discipline.

She earned her undergraduate degree in History and Politics at Trinity College, Oxford, and holds an MSt in Women’s Studies from Wolfson College. Her research has received recognition through the Best PhD Poster Prize from the Association of Business Historians (2023) and the New Researcher Poster Prize from the Economic History Society (2024).