Author

John Woolf

Dr John Woolf is a historian and researcher. Having read history at the University of Cambridge he went on to obtain a PhD on nineteenth-century freak shows. Since then had developed the BBC4 series The Real Tom Thumb: History's Smallest Superstar, and was assistant producer for Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled, also for BBC4, and narrated by A. N. Wilson. John is currently co-writing a book for Audible, Victorian Secrets, with Stephen Fry, to be released in 2019. John will also be featuring in a new BBC4 documentary, Dwarfs in Art, as well as presenting a new documentary on mental illness for BBC R4.