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A snapshot from our recent ‘Inspiring Cockney Women’ talk, held at Four Agency on 6th March 2025.

Presentations were given by: Anna Robinson, Dr. Katherine Connelly, Lucy Armstrong, Matthew Hardy, and compèred by Carlene Sains from Cockney & Caribbean.

In an era where we need new inspiring political heroes, we’ve found an old one! Here’s an idea. We desperately need inspiring role models for the time we live in.

This is not about nostalgia but how we harness the real authentic heroes in our midst to inspire, create greater resolve and resilience, and just, in what is seemingly an increasingly rare and precious commodity in today's world of doing the right thing.

We’re celebrating the amazing story of Nellie Cressall, the East End councillor who in 1921 was sent to prison fighting for social justice despite being six months pregnant. Following a national outcry, refused the offer from the then Home Secretary to free her unless they released the other jailed councillors.

In the end they reached a compromise in evicting Nellie from Holloway Prison. (If you’re in London next Wednesday come along to a fabulous free early evening event where Nellie’s and other inspiring Cockney Women stories will be told as part of our Modern Cockney Festival.

The talk was hosted by Four Agency, held on Wednesday 5th March 2025 in Aldgate East.

For more information about the month-long festival, visit:
www.moderncockneyfestival.org.uk

The Modern Cockney Festival is brought to you in collaboration with Grow Social capital CIC, and the Bengali East End Heritage Society.

Video and photographs: Saif Osmani
Background music: music_for_video via Pixabay