Professor Mary Davis is head of the Centre for Trade Union Studies at the University of North London. She is a labour historian and author of “Sylvia Pankhurst: A life in radical politics”
Megan Dobney is a member of print union GPMU and chair of the Southern & Eastern Region TUC Women’s Rights Committee
Barbara Switzer was until her retirement the Assistant General Secretary of MSF (Manufacturing Science Finance union) and is President of the National Assembly of Women
Ian Walters is the sculptor invited to create the statue of Sylvia.
In April 2000 Ian received the Millennium Prize (for portraiture) for his portrait of Lord Soper. The prize was sponsored by Tussaud's Studios. The judging panel was Judy Craig (Head of Portrait Studio at the Tussauds Studios), Anthony Stone (President of the Society of Portrait Sculptors), and James Holloway (the Keeper of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery).
His statue of Harold Wilson was unveiled by Tony Blair in Huddersfield in July 1999.
Other works include: Nelson Mandela (Royal Festival Hall, London), Trevor Huddleston (unveiled by Nelson Mandela in April 2000 in Bedford), International Brigade Memorial (Jubilee Gardens, London), Trevor Huddleston (South Africa House, London), Frank Cousins (TGWU, London)
Richard Pankhurst is Professor of Ethiopian Studies at the University of Addis Adaba, Ethiopia. He has written widely about his mother Sylvia Pankhurst’s contribution as suffragette, an artist and an anti-fascist
The Southern & Eastern Region TUC covers one third of trade unionists in Britain
Socialist Women On Male Platforms (SWOMP) wants women to be seen and heard.
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