Sarah Lonsdale

Dr Sarah Lonsdale was a journalist for twenty-five years, training on the Reading Chronicle before joining the Observer newspaper as a general reporter. During her time on the Observer she specialised in stories concerning social justice. She was a freelance features writer for a wide variety of publications. She was a weekly columnist for the Sunday Telegraph 2006 - 2015 writing about environmental issues, particularly the threat of climate change. She currently writes essays and book reviews for the Times Literary Supplement.

Her main research interests are the history of journalism and early C20 women’s and literary history.

Dr Lonsdale holds a BA (Hons) and MA from the University of Cambridge in Modern and Medieval Languages (French and Italian). Her PhD (2013) was on, 'The Representation of Journalists and the Newspaper Press in British Literature 1900 - 1939' at the University of Kent. She holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE). She joined City University London in 2013 after six years as a lecturer at the University of Kent, teaching at the School of English and the Centre for Journalism there.

She is author of The Journalist in British Fiction and Film (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), Rebel Women Between the Wars: Fearless Writers and Adventurers (MUP, 2020) and Wildly Different: How Five Women Reclaimed Nature in a Man’s World (MUP, 2025).