New play recounts 'petticoat rule' in the UK's first female-majority council
Frankie Meredith's Petticoat Council " to be performed as part of Coventry's city of culture celebrations " celebrates women's pioneering achievements in Bishop's Itchington In an unassuming village in Warwickshire after the second world war, a group of six women were quietly making history. As part of the first female-majority parish council in the UK, they transformed Bishop's Itchington into a thriving community a…