LOUD WOMEN is teaming up with superhistorian Louise Raw to curate the music for this year’s Matchwomen Festival, to be held at the stunning venue of the London Irish Centre on 1st July. The musical line-up will be announced very shortly, but in the meantime just have a look at the speakers on the daytime bill!
Imani Robinson UK Black Lives Matter Shami Chakrabarti Shadow Attorney General, in conversation with Diane Abbott MP Lyn Brown MP Rachel Holmes best-selling author of ‘Eleanor Marx’, and the forthcoming biography of Sylvia Pankhurst Kiri Tunks the NUT Vice President Barbara Jackson Secretary of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign Sarah Wise author of ‘The Blackest Streets’ Louise Raw festival founder, on women fighting back through history Women of the London Recruits: the sensational story of the young women who undertook clandestine missions for the ANC during the bleakest years of the apartheid regime; now subjects of a book and film.
