Francis Beckett is an author, journalist, broadcaster, playwright and contemporary historian.
He is the author of sixteen books, most recently Marching to the Fault Line – a history of the 1984-5 miners’ strike, jointly written with David Hencke and published by Constable and Robinson in 2009; and How to Create a Successful School, published by Biteback Publishing in 2010.
His last two plays, after successful London fringe runs, have now been published by Samuel French: Money Makes You Happy (2008) and The Right Honourable Lady (2009.) An earlier play, The Sons of Catholic Gentlemen, won the Independent Radio Drama Productions award.
He writes regularly for the Independent on education, and for the Guardian on anything other than education, as well as for a host of magazines including the New Statesman; and is editor of U3A News, the national magazine of the University of the Third Age.
His latest book will be What Did the Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us, will be published by Biteback Publishing in July 2010.
He is the author of sixteen books, most recently Marching to the Fault Line – a history of the 1984-5 miners’ strike, jointly written with David Hencke and published by Constable and Robinson in 2009; and How to Create a Successful School, published by Biteback Publishing in 2010.
His last two plays, after successful London fringe runs, have now been published by Samuel French: Money Makes You Happy (2008) and The Right Honourable Lady (2009.) An earlier play, The Sons of Catholic Gentlemen, won the Independent Radio Drama Productions award.
He writes regularly for the Independent on education, and for the Guardian on anything other than education, as well as for a host of magazines including the New Statesman; and is editor of U3A News, the national magazine of the University of the Third Age.
His latest book will be What Did the Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us, will be published by Biteback Publishing in July 2010.
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