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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…
This is an archived listing from the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Alice Hawkins – Working Class Suffragette is by Great-Grandson Peter Barratt with Sister Suffragette Ruth Pownall, listed under Spoken Word in the Fringe programme. It plays at Paradise in The Vault, 11 Merchant Street, EH1 2QD, 17 August to 21 August.
The show runs 60 minutes and is suitable for ages 12+. Tickets are £9.