Francis Beckett's Journalism

Francis Beckett was the winner of the 2009 Ted Wragg Award for lifetime achievement in educational journalism.

He writes for the Independent, and on politics, industry, the theatre and contemporary history for the Guardian, Daily Express, the New Statesman, Total Politics, BBC History, History Today, the New Humanist, Jewish Chronicle, the Tablet, and several other publications.

He is the winner of the 2009 Ted Wragg Award for lifetime achievement in educational journalism.

His recent journalism includes:

Welcome to my perfect school – the Richard Dawkins Humanist Conservatoire

The myth of the Blitz

Teach children to think critically

What happened in the 1930s

Profile of Michael Gove

Priestly child abuse as fiction

Farewell to Gordon Brown

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