Hannah Roberts is a Head of Marketing and innovation expert who has successfully crafted and lead global brand strategies using her leading-edge technique of trend forecasting, data science and successful anticipation of socio-cultural trends. As such, she constantly lives in the future, enabling brands to optimise planning, accelerate revenue and ideate accurately for consumers 3-5 years from now. Roberts’s work has pioneered inventive approaches to marketing, and provided tactical step-change opportunities for some of the world’s leading brands. Since 2000, her expertise has been highly influential in the FMCG industries. An accomplished presenter, Roberts shares her expertise globally as a speaker and actively supports young executives.

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Married in 1950, Chris and Betty Birch have been involved in political, trade union, and LGBTQ+ activism for over 60 years. Sharing similar interests, they were both Communist Party Members and involved with organisations such as the Aid to Spanish Youth Committee. After the death of his friend, Mark Ashton, Chris became involved in forming the Mark Ashton Memorial Trust, which was created to raise money for individuals living with HIV. The archive includes the truncheon taken from the police by Mark Ashton, correspondence, personal scrapbooks, press cuttings, and various other papers relating to the couples activism.