Beatrix Campbell

Campaigning journalist and author

Beatrix Campbell is an award-winning author, journalist, and filmmaker. She joined The Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1970s, and has served on the National Women's Advisory Committee. She is the author of Wigan Pier Revisited, which won 1984's Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize, and The Iron Ladies (1987), which won the Fawcett Society Prize. She regularly writes for the Guardian, and has received several awards for her journalism, including the 300 Group’s Campaigning Journalist of the Year Award.

Campbell’s films include Dangerous Places, Diana Princess of Wales - How Sexual Politics Shook the Monarchy, and Listen to the Children, a documentary about the Nottingham child abuse case, which won the Independent Television Producers First Time Producers award. She was made an OBE in 2009.