This book was extremely informative for me as I start a campaign to get a statue of Ada Nield Chew in my home town of Crewe. The book is a tour of statues in Britain – not all but covered many.

This book is split into sections which I found was really easy to read:

• Sport personalities 
• Nude Statues
• Musical Statues
• BAME Statues
• Women’s Statues

And many more.

I was obviously really interested in the Women’s statue section, it highlighted that there is a big difference between male statues and female statues, a fact that I already knew, but needed to read it again. It also highlighted the campaigns that are and have been in place for Women’s Statues such as Invisible Women and Caroline Criado Perez campaign for Millicent Fawcetts statue in Parliament Square. 

What I loved about this book was reading about all the other campaigns that have taken place to get statues in towns and cities. It reassured me our campaign can turn into a statue reality like theirs. 

In the book Roger really brought the statues to life, writing about people he had spoken to when visiting statues round the country, I found these comments really interesting as I am love to find out about people thoughts and feeling towards such topics. 

For each statue Roger provided a real insight to each statue, the history, who designed it, why the statue was in the town etc. 

This book has definitely made me want to go and visit some more women statues, in particular “Cracker Packers” in Carlisle, a statue by Hazel Reeves who we are working with for our Ada statue. 

Thank you Roger for an informative and inspiring book and thank you to my 3 children for getting me this book for my birthday – they know me so well!