Joan Liversidge

Joan Eileen Annie Liversidge FSA (May 1914 - 16 January 1984) was an English archaeologist who specialised in Roman Britain.

Biography Liversidge was an Honorary Keeper of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, a research fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, and a faculty lecturer at Cambridge. She was a Founding Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.

Her work was focussed on artefactual and artistic evidence. Liversidge took a social history approach to Roman Britain which was undervalued in subsequent decades.

She was secretary of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society for 25 years. She was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1951.

Selected publications Furniture in Roman Britain. Tiranti, London, 1955. Britain in the Roman Empire. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968. Roman Gaul: Illustrated from contemporary sources. Longman, London, 1974. Everyday life in the Roman Empire. Batsford, 1976. Roman provincial wall painting of the Western Empire. British Archaeological Reports, 1982. (Editor)