Lilian Bilocca put down her filleting knife, picked up some sheets of paper and stormed into action. Those four women were Yvonne Marie Blenkinsop, Mary Denness, Lillian Bilocca and Christine Jensen (formerly Smallbone). A mural on Hull's Anlaby Road painted by Mark Ervine and Kev Largey depicts Bilocca and her connections with the "headscarf revolutionaries" and the triple trawler tragedy.

Lavery takes us through the whole episode in detail, describing the sinkings and the reaction of the fishwives. I'm going over," skipper Phil Gay pleaded in a final, desperate message from the Ross Cleveland, which sank while sheltering from a storm in an inlet near Isafjordur in Iceland on 4 February. The women had taken their campaign to Westminster and forced rapid changes to the trawling industry after a meeting with Board of Trade minister Joseph Mallalieu and fisheries minister Fred Peart. Lavery notes in his detailed account of the ‘Headscarf Revolutionaries’, the Secretary of the Hull branch of the Transport and General Workers’ Union encouraged any men not at sea to assist the ‘fighting fishwives’—they had drawn more attention to the issue in a few days than the union had managed in years.Maxine Peake has written a play entitled The Last Testament of Lillian Bilocca which opened in Hull in November 2017. When we got off, the station was empty and the platforms were surrounded by those barriers they use on royal visits.

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. From then on she was lionised and patronised in equal measure by the media – like a cross between Boudicca and Nora Batty. Described as an extremist at first by the opposition, they eventually had to listen to her and the 10,000 people behind her. 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.Blenkinsop later accompanied Hull’s three Labour MPs to Parliament to mark the 50th anniversary of the campaign. And to this list we can add the uprising of the Headscarf Revolutionaries, which has now been brilliantly documented in a new book by Brian Lavery. Lavery describes how the British public and media took Lil and the campaign into their hearts, but also how fickle that support was, and how quickly it was removed. Book sections slim down, top-name authors share the few reviews between them, and the true marketing becomes readers word of mouth.

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?In the programme for that exhibition, Warhol coined a phrase: ‘in the future,’ he wrote, ‘everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. 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. His work on Hull’s year as 2017 City of Culture was recently published in the Open Library of the Humanities.