John Woolf was born in 1988 and read History at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was awarded two scholarships before gaining two further scholarships at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he worked on his fully-funded PhD. His doctorate explored nineteenth-century ‘freak shows’ and was awarded in August 2016.

Woolf has co-written a twelve-episode Audible book on Victorian History with Stephen Fry and Nick Baker of Testbed Productions. John also works as a freelance researcher, most recently with Channel 5 and What Larks Productions, and made his first onscreen appearance in a BBC4 documentary, Dwarfism in Art, aired in 2018.

Woolf has also taught in India and the UK, working as a Seminar Tutor at the University of London, peripatetic tutor at Latymer Upper School and as an English teacher in a Buddhist Monastery in India. He  ...