[1] She immediately entered employment with the Inland Revenue in Northwich, where she remained until 1937, when she enrolled at Manchester University, to study history.
[3] In September 1940, she began a research studentship on medieval history, under the supervision of E. F. Jacob,[2] focusing upon the government of London during the reign of Henry V.[1] but this was cut short in December, when she was appointed to the Treasury.
[1] Namier involved Kemp in his History of Parliament project, to which she contributed a number of biographies on MPs of the 18th and 19th centuries.
[2] Namier's influence led Kemp to change her academic focus from the medieval period to constitutional history.
"[7] Her third and final book, a biography of Sir Robert Walpole, published 1976, was part of a series on British Prime Ministers, edited by Taylor.