Elsa Marshall, Shrewsbury Sixth Form College - Shropshire Heat Winner.

Elsa’s powerful and relevant speech declares that the Age of Revolutions failed women, who have been side-lined throughout history and have always had mighty barriers to overcome. She mentions Coventry Patmore’s submissive ideal of women and later discusses dynamic revolutionary women such as Olympe de Gouges and Mary Wollstonecraft, who fought for gender equality when it wasn’t even on the agenda.