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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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