Janet Shepherd Author

Dr Janet Shepherd gained her doctorate in Poor Law education. She teaches, and also specialises in children’s literature. Professor John Shepherd is co-director of the Labour Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and author of a biography of George Lansbury. Professor John Shepherd is Co-Director of the Labour History Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and author of George Lansbury (OUP, 2004). He is currently researching and writing a book on the Winter of Discontent for Manchester University Press.