Léa Leboissetier

PhD student and teacher of Contemperory History, Léa Leboissetier is currently writing her thesis on traveling salesman and hawkers in Great Britain from the 1860s to the 1940s at Lyon’s École Normale Supérieure (Laboratory for Historic Research and Center for 19th Century History). She is specialising in the history of work and British social history and has published an article on the cross-Channel seasonal migration of the Johnnies (Leboissetier, Léa. “‘Johnny Onions!’: Seasonal Pedlars from Brittany and Their Good Reputation in Great Britain (1870s–1970s).” Journal of Migration History 7, no. 2 (August 23, 2021): 85–110).