Edna Woodhead obituary (opens in new tab)

My mother, Edna Woodhead, who has died aged 91 of cancer, was an adult education teacher, and a lifelong socialist and activist: as a school governor successfully campaigning to end corporal punishment in Doncaster schools; holding hands with women around the perimeter of Greenham Common; working tirelessly for Doncaster Labour party; supporting a range of humanitarian organisations and, during the miners’ strike, standing in solidarity with .An only child, she was born in Newcastle upon Tyne...