Jane Humphries is professor of Economic History at Oxford University and a fellow of All Souls College. She works on issues to do with economic development with particular emphasis on industrialization, labour markets, consumption, gender and wellbeing.

She has published a large number of papers, several edited collections and most recently a monograph on childhood and child labour in Britain, 1700–1878 (Childhood and Child labour in the British industrial Revolution, CUP, 2010). Her research using working people’s own accounts of their labour as children featured in a BBC4 documentary, which Professor Humphries presented and co-wrote.

She has edited the Economic History Review and is a member of the editorial boards of a number of social science journals. She was a founding member of the International Association for Feminist Economics and has been its President.

She is currently president of the Economic History Society.