Hull 1968 – A Winter of Woe. Malcolm Johnson

This very interesting talk by Malcolm Johnson, which incorporated modern folk songs, began with information about the conditions and superstitions of Hull trawlermen in the late 1960s. It then gave an account of the triple trawler disaster in the winter of 1968, when 3 Hull trawlers were lost, resulting in the loss of 58 lives.

The miraculous survival of just one trawlerman was described, along with a surprising aftermath – how a small group of Hull women, The Headscarf Heroes campaigned for and won much safer working conditions for trawlermen, in one of the most successful civil actions of the 20th Century.