| Welcome to this website which is being developed for Beatrix Campbell, journalist, writer
broadcaster and social commentator. You will be able to see Beatrix's books, reviews and articles, and contact her for requests for speaking and broadcasting engagements. |
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| Beatrix Campbell was
born in Carlisle in 1947. After leaving school she became a print
and broadcast journalist. She worked for ten years on the Morning
Star and was a founder member of the Women's Liberation journal Red
Rag. From 1979 she was a reporter with Time Out.
Together with the majority of the staff she left after a long occupation
and strike to defend equal pay for all and workers' right to
consultation and set up the co-operatively owned magazine City Limits,
where she worked as a reporter until 1988.With Anna Coote she
co-authored the best selling book Sweet Freedom. Virago published
Wigan Pier Revisited, her rendezvous with George Orwell's classic
and which was the winner of the 1984 Cheltenham Festival prize for
Literature. In 1987 her book The Iron Ladies was the winner of
the Fawcett Prize, followed by Unofficial Secrets: The
Cleveland Case in 1988.In 1989 she was awarded the 300 Committee's
Nancy Astor Campaigning Journalist of the Year. In 1990 Channel 4
broadcast her award winning documentary on the Nottingham ritual abuse
cases, which was followed by Goliath: Britian's Dangerous Places,
her book on the 1991 riots in Britain. She is a visiting professor of
Women's Studies at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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Author Anthony Hinsley.
Copyright © 2001 Beatrix Campbell All rights reserved.
Revised: July 18, 2007
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