Her research has focused on death and burial in London and Paris and she has written widely on the subject in academic journals and in book form.
[1] In 2008, Harding contributed to the BBC Radio 4 In Our Time series on the Great Fire of London.
[2] In 2012, she became general editor of the British Academy Records of Social and Economic History series.
[3] Harding's research relates to the social, economic, and physical history of London from the 14th to the 17th centuries.
[1] She has written extensively on death and burial in academic journals and in her book The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500–1670 (Cambridge University Press, 2002).