Bücher von Joyce Quin

(RT HON BARONESS ) JOYCE QUIN Born and brought up on Tyneside, Joyce took a first in French at Newcastle University followed by a Master's degree in International Relations at the London School of Economics. Following a number of years as a Lecturer at Bath and Durham Universities she was elected MEP for Tyne and Wear in 1979. In 1987 she became Member of Parliament for Gateshead East and served as a Government Minister from 1997 to 2001. She was appointed to the House of Lords in 2006, taking as her title Baroness Quin of Gateshead. She is an Honorary Fellow of Sunderland University and of St. Mary's College, University of Durham. She is a Freeman of the Borough of Gateshead and in 2010 was made "Officier de la Legion d'Honneur" by the Government of France. Outside politics she has always been keenly interested in North-East local history and since the 1970s has been one of Newcastle's Volunteer City Guides. She also plays the Northumbrian pipes and is President of the Northumbrian Pipers' Society. In 2017 she took up an appointment as Chair of the Strategic Board of Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums. She is the author of a book on the British Constitution which was published in 2010. She lives in Warkworth, Northumberland. MOIRA KILKENNY Moira has a degree in Modern History from Durham University and went on to Cavendish Square, London University for her Postgraduate Certificate in Education. Later she gained a Master's Degree from Newcastle University. She has taught or worked in Education for more than thirty years. She was a Senior Advisor/inspector in Durham LEA, before becoming Head of St. Philomena's High School for Girls in Surrey, a post she held for eleven years until her retirement. Throughout her life, her main aim has been to raise the confidence, aspiration and achievement levels of the young and especially girls. Now in retirement in Warkworth she enjoys being close to her grandchildren, she plays some golf, Chairs the Warkworth History Society and is a frequent visitor to the local archive offices in pursuit of fresh role models to inspire us all, old and young.