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Cofiwch Winifred Carney – ‘The Typist With The Webley’
Read more: Cofiwch Winifred Carney – ‘The Typist With The Webley’Our recent delegation to Ireland opened our eyes to many things […] One thing impressed upon me was how the women who fought in the Easter Rising were remembered, one in particular stayed with me – Winifred Carney, ‘the typist with the Webley’ as she is now known.
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Women, Strikes & Socialism – from 1926, to 1984, to today
Read more: Women, Strikes & Socialism – from 1926, to 1984, to today“We had, as socialists, hailed with delight the Russian Revolution of 1917. We had regarded it as the beginning of the triumph of our ideas. But already in 1919 the golden vision had been a little tarnished. Stories came out of Russia which gave rise to doubts, but still we hoped. Sylvia [Pankhurst] had been…