“Rebellious women have not been much celebrated in our society,” the editors correctly argue in the introduction to this inspiring collection from Honno, a co-operative press set up to support Welsh women’s writing.

The interviews and short essays from 17 British women activists it contains go some way to countering our male-centred history and contemporary political culture.

The editors have taken care to choose a diverse set of largely little-known campaigners in terms of their social class, ethnicity, age, politics and issue of concern. It’s difficult to choose favourites from all the extraordinary testimonies, though Emma Must’s very personal account of her involvement in the pivotal anti-road protest at Twyford Down in the early 1990s is particularly affecting.