Anna Neima – Editor

I'm a freelance editor, historian and writer with a PhD in history from the University of Cambridge. For four years I was an editor for Connell Guides, a series of scholarly, yet approachable, guides to English literature and history – working on subjects as diverse as the American Revolution and Nazi Germany, the Tudors and the French Revolution. In a freelance capacity, I've worked on books on topics ranging from popular science and world photography to family history and biography, and have also helped smooth out the prose of works in translation.

While specialising in history and biography, I'm happy to edit manuscripts on practically any non-fiction subject. In particular, I have worked in a freelance capacity for several years copywriting, editing, proofing and project-managing web content, three recipes books and a collection of newsletters for a leading organic vegetable box company.

I'm eager to work with authors at all stages in the writing process – from offering developmental guidance on manuscripts in the draft phase, to copy-editing and proof-reading before self-publishing or submission to publishers. With my background studying, writing journal articles and giving tutorials at Cambridge, I can bring a high level of academic precision to a project. I'm equally enthusiastic about the challenge of helping create non-fiction that's accessible and compelling for the general reader.

I published a non-fiction history book in June 2021 with Picador, on experimental community-building across the world after the First World War. I also have a monograph in preparation with Cambridge University Press ('The Many Lives of Dartington Hall', 2022).

I worked for a lawyer for three years, and I am always interested in using my training in editing writing on the subject.