Elizabeth Crawford

@womanandsphere

Researcher and writer - dealer in books and ephemera

London
Joined August 2012

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    With so in the news, don't overlook the work of another suffrage foot soldier

  2. Demolishing Waterloo bridge, 1934. The new bridge, built mostly by women, was partially opened in March 1942 and was completed in 1945

  3. “I now have a a new favourite book” Bewildering Cares by Winifred Peck | Northern Reader

  4. Read about the Quinn Square Rent Strike in Bethnal Green 1938

  5. 21 Nov 1918 Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act allowed women to be MPs

  6. The utterly splendid May Morris...

  7. What happened when sent me to interview queen interviewer (Quite a LOT... )

  8. the last story I filed before the election is about anxiety and self-care and cheesy mashed potatoes

  9. 'Spinsters Demand Justice' - a rally in Trafalgar Square, demanding pensions for spinsters at the age of 55, May 1946.

  10. 19 Nov 1953 Lena Jeger elected MP for Holborn & St Pancras South

  11. Politics is won by people who show up. We all need to get out and make the argument

  12. Millicent did NOT deliver 1866 petition or even sign it - too young - she was only 18 (NOT 19) when J.S. Mill presented it to Parlt

  13. Lynne Walker speaking now - great insights into the gendered archive.

  14. Congressional panel calls for new Smithsonian museum of women's history

  15. An astonishing number of people make you who you are today.

  16. 'Black Friday' 18 Nov 1910 - an eye witness account of suffragette demonstration in Parliament Square

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