:Angela V. John
{{short description|Welsh historian and biographer}}
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| occupation = History professor and writer
| employer = University of Greenwich
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Angela V. John FRHistS FLSW (born 24 September 1948) is a Welsh historian known for her biographies, particularly of women. She is President of Llafur: The Welsh People's History Society.
Life
John was born in 1948 and she was brought up in Port Talbot.{{Cite web |title=Her web site |url=http://www.angelavjohn.com/}}{{Failed verification |date=June 2023}}
Her 1980 book By The Sweat of Their Brow concerned the lives of women employed in the Victorian coal mining industry.{{Cite book |last=John |first=Angela V. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qRj8AQAAQBAJ&dq=By+The+Sweat+of+Their+Brow&pg=PA59 |title=By the Sweat of Their Brow: Women workers at Victorian Coal Mines |date=2013-11-05 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-59931-6 |language=en}} In the late 1980s she was one of the founders of the academic journal Gender & History.{{Cite web |title=Professor Angela John - Swansea University |url=https://www.swansea.ac.uk/crew/crew-staff/professor-angela-john-honorary-research-fellow/ |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=www.swansea.ac.uk}}
She was employed as a History Professor at the University of Greenwich.
She began to research the life of Henry W Nevinson at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Hannah |date=2009-03-14 |title=Author's notes: Angela V John |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/authors-notes-angela-v-john-2117566 |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=WalesOnline |language=en}} As a result, she published War, Journalism and the Shaping of the 20th Century: The Life and Times of Henry W Nevinson a biography that includes his interests apart from his better known work as a war correspondent.{{Cite web |title=War, Journalism and the Shaping of the 20th Century: The Life and Times of Henry W Nevinson by Angela V. John. {{!}} The Western Front Association |url=https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-book-reviews/war-journalism-and-the-shaping-of-the-20th-century-the-life-and-times-of-henry-w-nevinson-by-angela-v-john/ |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=www.westernfrontassociation.com}} His life led to John's interest in the suffragist Evelyn Sharp, who became Nevinson's second wife. In 2009 John published her biography: Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869-1955.{{Cite book |last=John |first=Angela V. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QNELAQAAMAAJ&q=Evelyn+Sharp,+Rebel+Woman,+1869-1955 |title=Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869-1955 |date=2009-06-15 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-0-7190-8014-2 |language=en}}
In 2012 when she was an honorary Professor of History at Swansea University she was elected to the Learned Society of Wales.{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The Learned Society of |title=Angela V. John |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/angela-v-john/ |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=The Learned Society of Wales |language=en-US}} In 2015 she published a book based around the many famous actors from around her home town. The book as inspired by a conversation she had with the actor Michael Sheen. The book is titled The Actors’ Crucible: Port Talbot and the Making of Burton, Hopkins, Sheen and All the Others.{{Cite web |title=Review of Theatre History Book from the theatre dance and drama in Wales web site |url=http://www.theatre-wales.co.uk/reviews/reviews_details.asp?reviewID=2102 |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=www.theatre-wales.co.uk}}
In 2013 she published Turning the Tide, a biography of the suffragette Margaret Haig Thomas, later Lady Rhondda. This led to her working with Welsh National Opera on their production of Rhondda Rips It Up! a music-hall based work by Elena Langer on Lady Rhondda, which premiered in Newport in May 2018 and toured to sixteen British venues.{{Cite newspaper The Times |last=Franks |first=Rebecca |date=2018-06-14 |title=Opera review: Rhondda Rips it Up! at Mac, Birmingham |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/opera-review-rhondda-rips-it-up-at-mac-birmingham-wxd3fwxlh}}
In 2022 she succeeded the politician Hywel Francis as President of Llafur: The Welsh People's History Society. She had been a member of the society since 1977, and had served as chair and as vice-president.{{Cite web |date=2022-02-05 |title=Angela V. John is ratified as new Llafur President |url=https://www.llafur.org/2022/02/angela-v-john-is-ratified-as-new-llafur-president/ |access-date=2023-05-02 |website=Llafur}}
References
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External links
- {{Homepage |http://www.angelavjohn.com/aboutme.php |name=Homepage}}
- {{YouTube |WVKPmbc2hiI |'The Lives of Lady Rhondda; Champion of Equal Rights' A talk by Angela V. John}}
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Category:21st-century Welsh historians
Category:People from Port Talbot