Margaret Harrison (other)
Margaret Harrison (born 1940) is a British feminist and artist. Margaret Harrison may also refer to: * Margaret Harrison (violinist) (1899–1995), British violinist * Margaret Harrison (peace campaigner) (1918–2015), Scottish peace campaigner * Margaret Harrison (1938–2015), founder of Home-Start Worldwide Home-Start Worldwide is a not-for-profit family support movement, which started in the United Kingdom and has organisations in 22 countries. History Home-Start was initiated in Leicester, UK during 1973 by Margaret Harrison, before becoming a nat ...

Margaret Harrison
Margaret Harrison (born 1940 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England) is an English feminist and artist whose work uses a variety of media and subject matter. Life and work Born in Yorkshire, when her father returned from the war, her family moved first to Bridlington, then to Cumbria. Harrison studied at the Carlisle College of Art from 1957 to 1961; the Royal Academy Schools, London, England, from 1961 to 1964; and graduated from the Perugia Fine Arts Academy, Italy, in 1965. She founded the London Women's Liberation Art Group in 1970. A 1971 exhibition of her work that was closed by the police included a piece depicting Hugh Hefner as a naked Bunny girl. Between 1973 and 1975 she collaborated with artists Kay Hunt and Mary Kelly to conduct a study of women's work in a metal box factory in Bermondsey, London. They presented their findings in 1975 in the installation Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labour in Industry 1973–1975 that was first displayed at the So ...
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Margaret Harrison (violinist)
Margaret Harrison (1899–1995) was an English violinist and the youngest of four sisters who were respected classical musicians in Great Britain during the early 20th century. Each had started out as child prodigies. Her sisters, May (1890-1959), Beatrice (1892-1965), and Monica (1897-1983), became, respectively, a violinist, a cellist, and a mezzo-soprano. All four were reportedly also talented pianists. Her eldest sister, May Harrison, became known for her interpretations of the violin works of Bach, Brahms and Delius while her sister, Beatrice, was praised by King George V for her outdoor recordings at the Harrison’s home at Foyle Riding in Oxted, Surrey of cello works mingled with nightingale songs. According to Katrina Fountain who wrote a biographical sketch of the Harrison sisters: However much we admire the soloists of today, things will never be the same as during the lifetime of the Harrison family. They dedicated their lives to the cause of music, paving the wa ...
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Margaret Harrison (peace Campaigner)
Margaret Harrison (5 May 1918 – 15 April 2015) was a Scottish peace campaigner and anti-nuclear activist. Biography Harrison was 5 May 1918 in Dumbarton, Scotland. She was raised as a Christian. Harrison was active in the British anti-nuclear weapons movement and was the co-founder of the Faslane Peace Camp by the Clyde Naval Base on the Gare Loch in June 1982. In 1999, a Faslane Peace Camp caravan previously used by activists was put on display in an exhibition at the Riverside Museum in Glasgow . Harrison was arrested at least 14 times on protests against the Polaris nuclear weapons programme based in the Holy Loch at Dunoon and against the Trident missiles based on the Firth of Clyde. She also participated in peace and protests across Britain, including at demonstrations at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in Berkshire, at the RAF Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in Berkshire, and at the United States Air Base at Molesworth in Cambridgeshire. ...
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