John Charlton (born 1938 in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom), is a British historian working in the Marxist tradition.
He was a founding member (1961) of the Newcastle Branch of the International Socialists (IS) and has been a member of the IS and Socialist Workers Party in York, Leeds and Newcastle.
He is a graduate of York and Leeds universities and worked as a school teacher in Newcastle (1959–1964).
He is closely involved in the North East Labour History Society and has been Secretary and Editor of the Society’s journal, North East History.
[2] In 2010–11 he was leader of a Heritage Lottery Funded project, Mapping Popular Politics[3] in the north east of England and he was working on a Peoples’ History of North East England.