List Of Writers

BEDDOE, DEIRDRE

Tel: (01446) 730205 
Email: dbeddoe@btinternet.com  

Writer, historian, broadcaster. Born in Barry and educated at University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Emeritus Professor of Women’s History at the University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd. Committed to rescuing the lost history of women’s lives in Wales and making her findings available to a wide audience. She has published extensively and her works include a guide to researching local women’s history and a study of women’s lives in inter–war Britain. She has also co–edited a collection of Welsh women’s writings on the Second World War.

Selected Publications:
Welsh Convict Women: a Study of Women transported from Wales to Australia, 1787-1852 (Stewart Williams, 1979)
Discovering Women’s History: Practical Handbook (Rivers Oram Press, 1983)
Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars 1918-1939 (Pandora, 1989)
Out of the Shadows: Women in Twentieth Century Wales (University of Wales Press, 2000)

Contributed to:
Parachutes and Petticoats: Welsh Women Writing on the Second World War (co-editor) (Honno, 1992)
Women’s Studies: Essential Readings (contributor) (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993)
Changing Times: Welsh Womes Writing on the 1950s and 1960s (editor) (Honno, 2003)



Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Read and discuss own work
2. Reminiscence and autobiographical writing
3. Historical sources for writers of fiction
4. Images of women

AGE RANGE: Older secondary schools, adults