About: Olive Checkland

Olive Edith Checkland (née Anthony; 6 June 1920 – 8 September 2004) was an English historian and writer who specialised in post-19th century cultural, economic and social relationships between Japan and the United Kingdom. After enrolling on a geography degree at the University of Birmingham, she assisted her husband Sydney Checkland in forming the University of Glasgow's School of Economic History and the couple edited a republication of the English Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 and she worked alone in researching the Scottish Poor Laws. As associate director of 19th-century East Asians, Checkland wrote five entries for Oxford University Press' Dictionary of National Biography.