Her father, husband and son all worked at sea on the Hull fishing trawlers and Bilocca worked at an on-shore fish factory, filleting the catch. This city has lost an iconic citizen – I have lost a friend – but the greatest loss is of course to the family and friends of Yvonne. I was at the newsagent’s early doors next morning and could hardly wait to see my first story in a posh paper. Blenkinsop told the Fisheries Minister, Fred Peart, that they were not going to leave until all of the demands had been enacted. With overwhelming support from residents within the flats, the three housing blocks will honour the courageous women who never gave up their battle to make the fishing industry safer for fishermen in Hull and all over the country.

Sometimes the cause of synchronicity is obvious, as in the World War that preceded uprisings and revolutions from Clydeside to Moscow, or the economic collapse that by 2011 had sparked revolts as diverse as the English riots and the Arab Spring. Whether describing how the ventilation cowls on trawlers had to be coated with grease as weather protection, or the exact process of cod skinning, Lavery transports us to an unforgiving world of hard labour and macho conservatism. A Northern lass, born and bred in Manchester, Helen has been back in her home town for 13 years after working in London for The Times and a number of other national newspapers.He reveals that despite the grief and devastation at the catastrophic loss of so many fathers, brothers and sons, there was an extraordinary spirit of resilience amongst the young wives and mothers.

He has never spoken publicly since the 1960s, and refused several requests to be interviewed – a decision I respect.

At other times, the connections are harder to explain: why was 1848 the year that modernity clashed with feudalism across much of Europe and Latin America? Bilocca was held back by half a dozen police from jumping aboard a trawler that was about to go to sea. Lavery is a former journalist who has made Hull his adopted city, and he should not be confused with the well-known maritime historian Brian Lavery. Marge Proops ran a feature on ‘The Real Big Lil’ in the Daily Mirror, and even the Daily Mail carried a supportive front page lead. She started with a petition and this journey takes her Headscarf Revolutionaries right to the doors of Parliament.

St Andrew’s Dock was closed in 1975 and filled in the late 1980s, though the remarkable Lord Line building, its Modernist centrepiece, still stands.Bilocca initially attempted to prevent what she considered to be under-manned trawlers from putting to sea from Hull's St Andrew's Dock and had to be restrained by four policemen and policewomen to prevent her from doing so.

The Alliance for Workers' Liberty is an organisation fighting as part of the labour movement for a socialist alternative to both capitalism and Stalinism, based on common ownership and democracy.The Headscarf Revolutionary was kickstarted in 1968 when three trawlers were lost in as many weeks - known as the Triple Trawler Disaster. She quipped in her broad Hessle Road accent: “The married ones come home and take out their wives, then go to the pubs. They turned an industry on its head and made changes which have saved countless lives and still do to this day. From then on she was lionised and patronised in equal measure by the media – like a cross between Boudicca and Nora Batty. Bilocca and other fishermen's wives were incensed by the continuing loss of men in what was the world's most dangerous industry.