16 Facts About Beatrix Campbell

Mary Lorimer Beatrix Campbell is an English writer and activist who has written for a number of publications since the early 1970s.

Beatrix Campbell has made films, including Listen to the Children, a documentary about child abuse.

Beatrix Campbell was educated at Harraby Secondary Modern School and Carlisle and County High School for Girls, since 2008 the Richard Rose Central Academy.

Bobby encouraged Beatrix to get a job in journalism, and she joined him at the communist daily The Morning Star, formerly The Daily Worker, where he was the boxing correspondent.

Beatrix Campbell became deeply committed to the women's liberation movement in 1970, and from that time was oriented towards women and women's issues.

Beatrix Campbell was fourteen when, in 1961, she took part in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's march from Aldermaston to London in protest against nuclear weapons, and was still a teenager when she joined the Communist Party.

Beatrix Campbell belonged to the party's anti-Stalinist wing that opposed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

In London, she and Bobby Beatrix Campbell joined a dissident group within the Communist Party founded by university lecturer Bill Warren that produced a critique of both Stalinism and the party's economic policy.

Beatrix Campbell was one of a group of journalists on The Morning Star who in the early 1970s challenged the editor to break the paper's exclusive ties to the Communist Party and the trade union movement, and open a dialogue with newly emerging social movements.

Beatrix Campbell became associated politically and professionally with the emergence of radical municipalism, particularly in London, under the leadership of Labour's Ken Livingstone.

In 1998 Beatrix Campbell reported on a Newcastle City Council report into allegations of child abuse at the Shieldfield Nursery in the city in 1993.

On 9 February 1991 Beatrix Campbell appeared on television discussion programme After Dark together with the then deputy director of Nottinghamshire social services Andy Croall and others.

Beatrix Campbell left the Green Party in 2020, citing policies on transgender issues.

Beatrix Campbell has received several academic honours including honorary doctorates conferred by Salford University, Oxford Brookes University and The Open University.

Beatrix Campbell's work has gained her several awards, including the Cheltenham Literature Festival Prize in 1984 for the book Wigan Pier Revisited, the Fawcett Society Prize in 1987 for the book The Iron Ladies and the First Time Producers' Award in 1990 for her Dispatches documentary film Listen to the Children.

In June 2009, Beatrix Campbell was appointed an OBE for "services to equal opportunities".