Francis Beckett
- Francis Beckett is an author, journalist, broadcaster and contemporary historian. His twelfth book, a 25th anniversary history of the 1984-5 miners' strike, written with the Guardian's Westminster correspondent, David Hencke, is called Marching to the Fault Line. Earlier books include biographies of four Prime Ministers, Attlee, Macmillan, Blair and Brown, and a book about education, The Great City Academy Fraud, published by Continuum in 2007. His first play, The Sons of Catholic Gentlemen, won the Independent Radio Drama Productions annual award in 1997 and was broadcast the next year. His second, Money Makes You Happy, had a three-week run at the Bridewell Theatre and is to be published by Samuel French. (source: The Guardian)
- Francis Beckett has written articles published in The Independent and The Guardian.
Most Recent article
Rainbow warrior: How a head battled to save his inner-city school from the council
The Independent, Thursday 18 MarchAfter a bitter battle against Camden Council, head Sean O'Regan has won a campaign to keep Edith Neville School as it is – proudly unconventional.
Previous Articles
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How Neil Baldwin became Keele University's mascot
The Guardian, Tuesday 9 March
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Why David Cameron's schools policy is out of date
The Guardian, Monday 1 March (1 blog link)
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Inquest to probe safety record at Manchester University
The Independent, Thursday 25 February
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Angela's angels: How one woman took a school from the dog house to top of the class
The Independent, Thursday 28 January
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The Great Silence 1918-1920 by Juliet Nicolson
The Guardian, Sat 7 November 2009
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Why has the popular head of a Catholic school in west London been suspended?
The Independent, Thu 29 October 2009
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Coroner to investigate cancer death cluster around historic nuclear lab
The Independent, Sun 18 October 2009
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Inquiry rules lab cancer deaths were not linked to radioactive material
The Independent, Thu 8 October 2009
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These schools show no charity
The Guardian, Tue 6 October 2009
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The unions weren't buying Brown
The Guardian, Sat 19 September 2009
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- More about 'rutherford' than anything else
- A lot about 'baldwin' in the last month
Francis Beckett by numbers...
- 56 articles (since November 2007)
- Average article: 26 column inches (782 words)
- Shortest article: 1 column inches (37 words)
- Longest article: 74 column inches (2206 words)
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