Mr Morgan Jones: So I take it there now exists in this town, the city of Kingston, two bodies [providing child welfare services], one of which is composed of your own people – Jamaicans – and another composed of people…
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Women’s History Month: Irish Women Patrols
The advent of the First World War forced Irish feminist groups to adjust to new social and political circumstances. Most suffrage organisations participated in the war effort while keeping up suffrage work as much as possible, and many individual members…
Women’s History Month: S. Margery Fry (1874-1958) ‘Women Champion of the Underdog’
Margery Fry was born on 11th March 1874 into a prominent and well-connected Quaker family. She was the eighth child of Edward and Mariabella Fry, whose family was later completed by the birth of Margery’s younger sister, Ruth. Margery’s father…