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Speech at the Cambridge Union, 29th February 2024
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Rebellious Daughters of History #49
Rebellious Daughters of History #48 by ,,Judy Cox Marie Curie’s socialist, scientist daughter Irène Joliot-Curie (1897 – 1956) Irène was the daughter of Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, born in […]
Rebellious Daughters of History #46 by ,,Judy Cox Anne Ellis and the Dewsbury weavers’ strike (1875) On 1 February 1875, weavers In West Yorkshire learned that mill owners planned to […]
Rebellious Daughters of History #45 by ,,Judy Cox The Uprising of the 20,000 On November 23, 1909, more than twenty thousand Yiddish-speaking immigrants, mostly young women in their teens and […]
Rebellious Daughters of History #44 by Judy Cox Inspired by the Tower Hamlets Unison Strike: The Chocolate Women’s Strike Clementina Black, secretary of the ‘Women’s Trade Union League’, organised a […]
Rebellious Daughters of History #43 by ,,Judy Cox The French Revolution: Théroigne de Méricourt (1762–1817) Théroigne was born in Marcourt, Rendeux. Her mother died after giving birth to her so […]
Rebellious Daughters of History #42 by ,,Judy Cox Black America Rising: Shirley Graham Du Bois (1896 – 1977) Lola Shirley Graham Jr. was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1896, one […]