Frome’s wartime MP Mavis Tait was never dull. A committed feminist, she was never afraid to make her point, whether it was defeating Churchill on equal pay, seeing for herself life in the Somerset coalmines, or reporting back on the horrors of the Nazi extermination camps. David Heath is a well-known local speaker, and former […]
Emma Sheppard saw for herself the inhumanity of the Victorian workhouse and made it her mission to reach out to those in poverty and need, and press for reform to a system which was empty of compassion and full of needless cruelty and neglect. David Heath is a well-known local speaker, and former Frome MP.
The story of Alice Seeley Harris and how the photographs of the horrors she witnessed as a missionary in the Congo launched one of the first international human rights campaigns and led to the fall of Leopold II, among the richest and most powerful men in the world. David Heath is a well-known local speaker, […]