# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-thirsk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:43:39.345Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-thirsk"
name: "Joan Thirsk"
slug: "joan-thirsk"
description: "Irene Joan Thirsk was a British economic and social historian, specialising in the history of agriculture. She was the leading British early modern agrarian historian of her era, as well as an important social and economic historian. Her work highlighted the regional differences in agricultural practices in England. She also had an interest in food history and local English history, in particular of Hadlow, Kent."
tagline: "British historian and cryptologist (1922-2013)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1922-06-19"
deathDate: "2013-10-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.98
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.337617333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Thirsk"
    title: "Joan Thirsk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%83"
    title: "جوان ثيرسك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Thirsk"
    title: "Joan Thirsk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Thirsk"
    title: "Joan Thirsk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Thirsk"
    title: "Joan Thirsk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Thirsk"
    title: "Joan Thirsk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%B8%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Тирск, Джоан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6205494"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump