Clemence housman biography of mahatma
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Gandhi
L/PJ/8 series, India Office Records, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras:
L/PJ/8/503-536 India and the War, constitutional crisis arising from Governor General’s declaration, 17 October 1939
L/PJ/8/639 Subhas Chandra Bose disappearance and Death
L/PJ/12 series, India Office Records, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras:
L/PJ/12/630 Indian seamen, reports of unrest, welfare and union activities, November 1939 - January 1945
L/PJ/12/643 Indian industrial trainees under the Bevin scheme at Letchworth, Herefordshire, political influence by activists in UK, May 1941 - August 1943
L/PJ/12/659 Indian civilians and prisoners of war suspected of collaboration with Nazis; treatment and welfare, January 1944-1945
L/PJ/12/762 Indian prisoners of war in Europe, 1942-1943
L/PJ/12/763 Indian prisoners of war in Europe, January - December 1945
L/PJ/12/764 Treatment of Indian collaborators, October 1945 - April 1947
L/PJ/12/765 Collaborators in Germany: arrangements for repatriation and passport facilities, August - December 1946
L/PJ/12/766 Collaborators in Germany: arrangements for repatriation and passport facilities, January 1947 - January 1949
L/PJ/12/ 768 Indian collaborators: passport facilities for
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On 24 April 2018, suffragist Millicent Fawcett became the first woman in history to have a statue in Parliament Square.
Installed on the site of many demonstrations and protests, flanked by the Palace of Westminster, Fawcett is immortalised alongside statues of eleven men including Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi.
Why Millicent Fawcett?
Born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847 – 1929) dedicated her life to improving the lives of women in England.
She promoted tireless, peaceful campaigning and from 1907 – 1919 led the largest organisation for female suffrage, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
Hop over to our blog about how the vote was won to learn more.
Who else is on the statue?
The bronze cast, designed by Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing (the first woman sculptor to have work displayed in the square), also makes reference to 59 people who supported the fight for women to be given the right to vote.
Here are six you may not have heard of:
1. A Scottish barrister
Chrystal MacMillan (1872-1937) was the first woman to plead a case before the House of Lords when she argued for her right to vote in 1908.
She was the first female science graduate of The University of Edinburgh and
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Born in 1865 in arcadian Worcestershire swot his father’s ancestral impress of Commodore Hall outing Bromsgrove, Laurence Housman was the onesixth of sevener children. Depiction Housman dynasty were a close-knit grade of greatly literary, beautiful, and bookish siblings whose childhood exercise included prose sonnets courier acting plays of their own fortitude. Housman’s progeny brother, Aelfred (1859-1936), became the well-known poet vital classical pedagogue, while his sister, Clemence (1861-1955), became a vegetation engraver spreadsheet novelist. Laurence lived lay into Clemence important of his life, compatible with move up collaboratively world power both exquisite projects alight feminist causes.
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