Diane Atkinson
Diane Atkinson lives in Shoreditch, London. She was born in the north-east of England and educated in Cornwall and London, where she completed a PhD on the politics of women’s sweated labour. She taught history at secondary schools in London before moving to the Museum of London, where she worked as a lecturer and curator, specializing in women’s history. She is the author of two illustrated history books, Suffragettes in Pictures and Funny Girls: Cartooning for Equality. Her first biography, Love and Dirt, was published by Macmillan in 2003.
Titles
Elsie and Mairi Go to War (Preface Publishing, 2009)
Love and Dirt (Macmillan, 2003)
Funny Girls: Cartooning for Equality (Penguin, 1997)
Suffragettes in Pictures (Sutton Publishing, 1996)
The Purple, White and Green: Suffragettes in London 1906-1914 (Museum of London, 1992)