She was married to Philip Picard, a barrister, from 1963 until his death in 1984, and they had one son. I am a lawyer by trade, and an inquisitive, practical woman by character". Picard told The Guardian, "I am not a properly trained historian. Her last book, Chaucer's People, a social history of England in the fourteenth century, was published in October 2017. Johnson's London Elizabeth's London followed in 2003, and Victorian London in 2005. Three years later, she published a similar volume entitled Dr. Upon retirement Picard began researching the history of seventeenth-century London, publishing a book entitled Restoration London in 1997. She also chaired the Social Security Appeal Tribunal in Oxford in the 1990s, where, as The Guardian recalled, "she dispensed as much public money as she dared". Picard later worked in the Office of the Solicitor of the Inland Revenue until her retirement in 1987. During the 1950s she worked as a lawyer for the Colonial Office in Dar es Salaam. She began her career by writing a book in 1948 called Questions and Answers on Private International Law, for which she was paid £25 (equivalent to £967 in 2021). Picard was called to the bar by Gray's Inn when she was 21, but did not practise as a barrister. She read law at the London School of Economics. As a teenager she cycled around southern France reporting on the situation of young displaced persons for the Red Cross. During the Second World War she was evacuated to Aberdeenshire. Picard was born in Dedham, Essex, the youngest of three daughters born to James Sleigh, a doctor, and Hilda Scott. In 1997 she published Restoration London, the first of several works on the social history of London. After retiring as a solicitor at the Inland Revenue, she turned to writing history as a hobby. Elizabeth Kate Picard (née Sleigh 11 October 1927 – 8 April 2022) was an English lawyer and historian.
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