Sally Alexander
Sally A. Alexander, (born 1943) is an English historian and feminist activist. Career. Alexander completed a diploma in history at Ruskin College, Oxford, before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in the subject at University College London. She helped to organise the United Kingdom's first national Women's Liberation Movement conference at Ruskin College in 1970, and was involved in several London Women's Liberation Workshops as well as the Night Cleaners Campaign (1970–72). A founding editor of the "History Workshop Journal" (established in 1976), she taught in the Extra-Mural Department of the University of London  in the 1970s; as of 2018 is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Goldsmiths, University of London. Aside from feminist history, her academic interests include the history of other social movements, of memory, and of psychoanalysis in Britain. Personal life. In the summer of 1964, Alexander married actor John Thaw; they divorced four years later. She has a daughter from this marriage, actress Abigail Thaw. Alexander’s granddaughter Molly Whitmey made a cameo in the Endeavour episode "Oracle" (series 7, episode 1, broadcast 1 February 2020) as the younger version of Alexander. Activism and legacy. Alexander is portrayed by Keira  Knightley in the 2020 British comedy-drama "Misbehaviour" about the 1970 Miss World competition that Alexander and other members of the Women's Liberation movement disrupted with flour bombs.