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.

John was born in 1948 and she was brought up in Port Talbot.^{[1][failed verification]}

Her 1980 book By The Sweat of Their Brow concerned the lives of women employed in the Victorian coal mining industry.^[2] In the late 1980s she was one of the founders of the academic journal Gender & History.^[3]

She was employed as a History Professor at the University of Greenwich.^[4][5]

She began to research the life of Henry W Nevinson at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.^[6] 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.^[7] 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.^[8]

In 2012 when she was an honorary Professor of History at Swansea University she was elected to the Learned Society of Wales.^[4] 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.^[9]

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!^[3] a music-hall based work by Elena Langer on Lady Rhondda, which premiered in Newport in May 2018 and toured to sixteen British venues.^[10]

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.^[5]

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