Professor Angela V. John
Honorary Professor
BA (Birmingham), MA (University of Wales, Swansea), Ph.D (Manchester), F.R.Hist.S
Contact
Email: aoj@aber.ac.uk
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Biography
Professor Angela V. John BA (Birmingham), MA (University of Wales, Swansea), Ph.D (Manchester) and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society is an Honorary Professor of History in the Department. For many years she published in women’s and gender history in nineteenth and early twentieth century Wales and England. She is the author of By The Sweat of Their Brow. Women Workers at Victorian Coal Mines(1980, 1984, 2006) and the award-winning Coalmining Women (1984). She has edited three collections of essays:Unequal Opportunities. Women’s Employment in England 1800-1918 (1986), Our Mothers’ Land. Chapters in Welsh Women’s History (1991, 1997, 2011) and The Men’s Share? Masculinities, Male Support and Women’s Suffrage, 1890-1920 (1997). Her current research is in modern British biographical history. She co-authored (with Revel Guest)Lady Charlotte. A Biography of the Nineteenth Century (1989 and 2007) and is the author of Elizabeth Robins. Staging a Life 1862-1952 (1995 and 2007) and of War, Journalism and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century. The Life and Times of Henry W. Nevinson (2006). 'Her most recent publication is Evelyn Sharp. She is now writing a biography of Lady Rhondda. Rebel Woman, 1869-1955(2009). She has been a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Council on National Records and Archives, of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Historical Research. A vice-president and former chair of Llafur, the Welsh Peoples’ History Society, she was also a founder member of the editorial board of the international journal Gender & History.
For further information see www.angelavjohn.com.