Angela V. John FRHistS FLSW (born 24 September 1948) is a Welsh historian known for her biographies, particularly of women.
[1][failed verification] Her 1980 book By The Sweat of Their Brow concerned the lives of women employed in the Victorian coal mining industry.
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.
[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.