One Girl Began - a fictional feminst history of Hackney - Gallery

Inspired by the site of the Matchwomen's Strike in 1888, Kate Murray-Browne's second novel is set over 111 years in Hackney and tells the story of three women separated by history but connected by the same building: a box factory in the Edwardian era, a derelict squat in the 1980s and luxury flats by 2020. It was described by the Hackney Citizen as 'a feminist history of the borough in fictional form'. Kate will be talking about how she turned fact into fiction and the discoveries she made about Hackney during the course of her research