Rebellious Daughter’s of History #17 by Judy Cox From suffrage to Stalins Purges: Rose and Nellie Cohen The Cohen sisters were the daughters of Maurice and Ada Cohen, refugees from Poland who settled in Whitechapel in 1884. Rose was born in 1894. As teenagers, Rose and Nellie joined Sylvia Pankhurst’s radical women’s suffrage Movement in […]

Rebellious Daughters of history #16 by Judy Cox International revolutionary Angelica Balabanoff (1878-1965) Angelica Balabanoff, was by any standards an extraordinary person. Born to Jewish parents, in Kiev, Ukraine in 1878, she left home aged 19 to study at a radical university in Brussels where she met Russian and Italian Marxists. After graduating, she continued […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #15 by Judy Cox Catherine Impey (1847-1923) Catherine Impey was a radical Quaker who lived in Street, Somerset. She travelled around America 1870s and was horrified by the racism she witnessed. Her small home became a meeting place for black activists including Frederick Douglass who visited her in 1888. After meeting […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #13 by Judy Cox Rent striker, suffragist and communist: Helen Crawfurd Helen Jack was born in the Gorbals, a working class area of Glasgow. Her mother worked a steam-loom and her father was a baker. Helen became active in the women’s suffrage movement around 1900, and in 1910 she joined the […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #12 by Judy Cox Painting the Revolution – Nadezhda Udaltsova (1885-1961) Nadezhda was one of a group of Russian avant-guard painters who were part of a great flowering of creative experimentation following the Revolution of 1917. Before 1914, Nadezhda studied painting in Paris, experimented with Constructivism and later joined the Suprematist […]