List Of Writers

JOHN, ANGELA V.

Website: http://www.angelavjohn.com
Email: aoj@aber.ac.uk

Biographer and historian. Angela hails from Port Talbot originally. She was Professor of History at the University of Greenwich from 1989 to 2004 but now lives in Newport, Pembrokeshire. She has written extensively about gender history, especially women’s employment and was the author of an award-winning book for schools entitled Coalmining Women (Cambridge University Press,1984). She has also edited collections of essays on Welsh and English women’s history and on men’s support for women’s suffrage. She now concentrates on biography and enjoys speaking about  this subject to different audiences. In 2006 she gave talks across the United States.

She has just completed a life of the journalist, suffragette and international humanitarian, Evelyn Sharp. Her biography of Sharp’s war correspondent husband was published in 2006 entitled War, Journalism and the Shaping of the Modern World. The Life and Times of Henry W. Nevinson. Tempus has just reprinted in paperback two of her earlier biographies: a life of the actress Elizabeth Robins and (with Revel Guest) the first biography of Lady Charlotte Guest. Angela has also written introductions to reprints of two of Menna Gallie’s novels for Honno Press. She has been a member of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, the Advisory Council of the Institute of Historical Research and the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Council on National Records and Archives. She is a vice-president and former chair of Llafur, the Welsh People’s History Society. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Member of Academi, Angela is currently Honorary Professor of History at Aberystwyth University.

Selected Publications:      
By The Sweat of Their Brow. Women Workers at Victorian Coalmines (Croom Helm, 1980)
Coalmining Women (Women in History Series) (Cambridge University Press, 1984) 
Unequal Opportunities: Women’s Employment in England 1800-1918 (Basil Blackwell, 1986)
Our Mothers’ Land (University of Wales Press, 1991)
Elizabeth Robins: Staging A Life (Routledge, 1995; Tempus, 2007)
War, Journalism and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century. The Life and Times of Henry W. Nevinson (I.B. Tauris, 2006)

Contributed to:
Lady Charlotte. A Biography of the Nineteenth Century (co-writer) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989)
The Men’s Share? Masculinities, Male Support and Women’s Suffrage in Britain 1890-1920 (co-editor) (Routledge, 1997) 
Lady Charlotte Guest: An Extraordinary Life (co-writer) (Tempus, 2007



Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Own biographical work
2. Researching and writing historical biography
3. Women’s suffrage in literature and creative writing 
4. Lectures, readings, workshops, discuussions

AGE RANGE: Sixth formers/ adults