Helen Antrobus Author

Helen Antrobus is a social history curator and historian from Manchester, specialising in the lives of 20th Century political women. As a public historian she has appeared on programmes such as the One Show, Who Do You Think You Are, Edwardian Britain in Colour, Britain's Lost Masterpieces, as well as BBC Radio 4's Ramblings and Great Lives. Andrew Simcock has been the Labour Councillor for Didsbury East on Manchester City Council since 2011. In 2014 he launched the WoManchester campaign to erect a statue of a woman of significance to Manchester, which resulted in the installation of Hazel Reeves' Emmeline Pankhurst statue in St. Peter's Square. The unveiling coincided with the 100th anniversary of some women voting for the first time in the British General Election.