Alice Hawkins – Working Class Suffragette
Great-Grandson Peter Barratt with Sister Suffragette Ruth Pownall
Paradise in The Vault
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Great-grandson Peter Barratt with sister suffragette Ruth Pownall give a stirring and passionate account of working-class suffragette, Alice Hawkins, and her hard-fought campaign for the right to vote. Mother of six, lifelong socialist and shoe machinist by trade, Alice was arrested, imprisoned and almost forgotten, until now. As the UK approaches the centenary of working-class women gaining the vote, hear the suffragette history you were never taught and see her very own ‘Votes for Women’ sash, hunger strike medal, prison notes and more. Urgent, political and deeply human.**** (The Student Newspaper).