Professor Mary Davis

Mary Davis is professor of labour history at London Metropolitan University where she heads the Centre for Trade Union Studies and is the deputy director of the Working Lives Research Institute. She has written, broadcast and lectured widely on women’s history, labour history, imperialism and racism. Her published books include Comrade or Brother? A history of the British Labour Movement 1789-1951; Marxism & Struggle; Fashioning a New World: a history of the Woodcraft Folk and Sylvia Pankhurst: a life in Radical Politics. She is an elected member of the TUC women's committee. She serves on the national executive of NATFHE (the University & College Lecturers' Union) and chairs its Women’s Committee. She is one of the founder members of the Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee.