John Simon Fowler (born January 1956)[1] is an English social historian and author who lives in Kew,[2] Richmond, London[3] and is vice-chair of the Richmond Local History Society.
Fowler, who has an MA in Archive Administration from University College London, was editor of Richmond History, the annual journal of the Richmond Local History Society, from 2015 to 2019 and was editor of Ancestors, the family history magazine of The National Archives (UK), from 2004 until it ceased publication in 2010.
He was an archivist at the Public Record Office, now The National Archives, for 20 years.
[5] He was secretary of Labour Heritage, the Labour Oral History Project and the Friendly Societies Research Group.
He is also active with the London Archive Users Forum and the Brewery and Pub History societies.