Lavery describes a very British rebellion, with that curiously British hostility towards political thinking. In the programme for that exhibition, Warhol coined a phrase: ‘in the future,’ he wrote, ‘everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.

There were more than 600 women there, and among those speaking was the then local union firebrand John Prescott. Ms Taylor, who was six when her mother and the other women marched on Parliament to fight for change in the 1960s, said: "The message is out there now that working-class women can be strong, they can fight, and if you believe in what you do you can do it from the heart, it's not always from the pocket. Their rebellion was in response to a triple tragedy that devastated Hull’s fishing community in three weeks at the start of 1968: in separate incidents, three trawlers were lost at sea and 58 fishermen died.A colourful march through Hull city centre was done in honour of the Headscarf Revolutionaries today. The women had taken with them 10,000 signatures on a Fishermen’s Charter which demanded radio operators for all ships, better weather forecasting, training for young deckhands, more safety equipment and a “mother ship” with hospital facilities to patrol with the fleet. The BBC broadcast a documentary entitled "Hull's Headscarf Heroes" in February 2018, to mark fifty years since the loss of the three trawlers.

Hull was at the time, according to Dr Lavery, the "greatest maritime city on Earth", and by necessity one that, on a day-to-day basis, relied enormously on the women who stayed ashore to keep it functioning. After the St Romanus and the Kingston Peridot – skippered by 33-year-old Ray Wilson – had been declared lost, Lillian Bilocca and others gathered thousands of signatures demanding better safety.She was met by Jeremy Corbyn — and former Labour deputy prime minister and Hull East MP John Prescott, who had fought alongside her in 1968. Seriously, this is a brilliant book, regardless of your genre preference (this being one I don't normally spend a lot of time reading). Fifty-eight men died in the Triple Trawler Disaster, triggering a transformative safety campaign led by Lillian Bilocca. One of their complaints was that not all trawlers had a radio operator on board, and that this should be a legal requirement.

Ten seconds after this radio message in the early hours of 4 February, 1968, the Ross Cleveland disappeared. By 1975, the industry had become unprofitable as the EEC introduced fishing quotas and cod wars escalated with Iceland.Copies of poison pen letters and other threats kept by Blenkinsop in files were lost in the floods of 2004. For me, their true legacy is the innumerable people here today who might not have been but for their campaign. Good news for Rita Eddom, with her little brother, reading about Harry’s survival – papers had dubbed her the ‘36-hour widow’.