Researcher â—† Writer â—† Historian
TALKS, TEACHING & AWARDS
TALKS
Highgate Cemetery Chapel
Victorian Freak Shows
April 2024
Local History Cafe Online
The Wonders
May 2020
Historians at Home
What do Historians do?
March 2020
The Old Operating Theatre
Wonder Flesh
February 2020
King Alfred School
The Weird and the Wonderful
November 2019
Islington Museum
Freak Shows, Circuses and Music Halls
September 2019
International Screenwriters Association
In Conversation with Dr. John Woolf
September 2017
Downing College, University of Cambridge
Life as a Freelancer
January 2015
Goldsmiths' Graduate Conference
The 'Real' Tom Thumb
May 2013
Lancaster Royal Grammar School
Victorian Freak Shows
May 2020
British Music Hall Society
Freak Shows and Music Halls
March 2020
Southwark Cathedral
Freak Show Entertainment
February 2020
Inside History Live
The Wonders!!
November 2019
Highgate School
The History of the Freak Show
October 2019
Quintessentially Education, China
Accessing Higher Education
July 2019
BBC4
Dwarfism in Art - Expert Interviewee
August 2017 (Aired 2018)
GH@10 Conference, University of London
Constructing Julia Pastrana, The Baboon Lady
November 2014
TEACHING
Dr Woolf has a breadth of teaching experience: he has taught History and International Politics to Undergraduates and Graduates around London; he has worked as a Seminar Tutor on the University of London's 'Dictators, Wars and Revolutions' course.
Dr Woolf currently works part time as a Tutor at Latymer Upper School and as a Professor at HULT International Business School. Additionally, he sits as an LEA School Governor at St Mary's Primary School, Islington.
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In the past, he has lived in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Shimla, India, teaching TEFL to Buddhist monks aged ten to sixty.
AWARDS
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Tony Lothian Award, Biographers' Club
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AudioFile Earphones Award
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CHASE AHRC Doctoral Scholarship
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Departmental Doctorial Scholarship, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Richmond Scholar, Downing College, University of Cambridge
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Gamlingay Scholar, Downing College, University of Cambridge
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Public Engagement Commendation, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Research Grant Award, CHASE and Goldsmiths, University of London
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Becoming a Public Intellectual, The Open University
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Buchanan History Prize for Academic Excellence, University of Cambridge