Anna Davin (born 1940) is a British academic and community historian; she is noted for her studies of working-class communities and her contributions to feminist politics and history-writing.
In 1958, she got married and subsequently raised children, but she returned to education, studying history at the University of Warwick from 1966 to 1969, and was a founding member of the Women's Liberation Group there (1968).
[2] The experience of raising children and returning to education meant the she "was thinking class and gender very strongly".
She returned to her PhD studies in the early 1990s;[2] the doctorate was awarded in 1991 for her thesis "Work and school for the children of London's labouring poor in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century".
[4] In the 1990s, Davin became a research fellow at Middlesex University and published a book, Growing Up Poor (1996).