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Annie Besant: ‘I will speak for all the despairing silent ones’

Posted on November 12, 2023 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Last month, the Phoenix Retirement Association in Crystal Palace hosted one of its regular talks, this time about the Victorian radical Annie Besant, a woman who led the matchgirls’ strike, popularised the cause of birth control, was courted … Continue reading →

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Posted in Church and religions, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, History, Stanley Halls | Tagged Annie Besant, Bryant and May, Gandhi, George Bernard Shaw, Gipsy Hill, Helena Blavatsky, Matchgirls, Matchgirls Strike, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Theosophical Society, theosophy, Upper Norwood | 1 Comment
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