History Talk Tues 13th May 2025 1.30pm
Ali Ronan – “Fearless Phillis”
During World War One, socialist and pacifist Phillis Skinner appeared to be ‘simply a wife and a mother’, but she had a complicated back story, with untold secrets. Her husband Allan was a conscientious objector imprisoned in London and Phillis was imprisoned briefly in Strangeways in 1917
