Sally A Alexander was born on 1943 and is an English historian and feminist activist.
13 Facts About Sally Alexander
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When she was sixteen, Alexander trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as an actress.
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Sally Alexander completed a diploma in history at Ruskin College, Oxford from 1968 to 1970, before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in the same subject from University College London.
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Sally Alexander helped to organise the United Kingdom's first National Women's Liberation Conference in 1970 at Ruskin College, as an activist with the Women's Liberation Movement.
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Sally Alexander was an organiser of the 1970 Miss World protest.
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Sally Alexander was involved in several London Women's Liberation Workshops as well as the Night Cleaners Campaign.
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Sally Alexander was a founding editor of the History Workshop Journal, which was established in 1976, and was involved with Red Rag, a socialist feminist magazine.
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Sally Alexander taught in the extramural department of the University of London in the 1970s.
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Sally Alexander taught history at the WEA and at Birkbeck College.
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Sally Alexander was a principal lecturer at the University of East London in history and cultural theory from 1992.
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Sally Alexander was part of the advisory group for Virago Press.
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Sally Alexander has a daughter from this marriage, actress Abigail Thaw.
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Sally Alexander is portrayed by Keira Knightley in the 2020 British comedy-drama Misbehaviour about the 1970 Miss World competition that Sally Alexander and other members of the Women's Liberation movement disrupted with flour bombs.