The tireless work carried out by Maltese women in the Second World War was monumental in their achievement of suffrage just two years after the end of the war, research behind a new docudrama series has found. Isabelle Warrington is playing Mabel Strickland. The research was conducted by Kim Dalli, who scripted the series about women who locally distinguished themselves in the war. These include a spy who joined an underground resistance network in Tunisia to relay information to the British, a cabaret dancer turned war plotter, the legendary ‘Mary Man’ who pulled numerous civilians from under rubble, and another woman who save prisoners of war and Jews from death camps in Rome. Called The Women of George Cross Island, the series is expected to start airing on GO Originals in October. During her research for the series, as she leafed through documents at the National Archives and Times of Malta newspapers, Dalli noticed women’s cry for voting rights became increasingly louder by the end of the war. In 1944, Josephine Burns De Bono, president of the Women of Malta Association, wrote that the right to vote and stand as parliamentary candidates was legally recognised in the UK and...