Tuesday, July 5, 2022

The Ladies of the Committee - (6) Dr Ella Scarlett Synge

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  The final member in this series of posts on the members of the Ladies Committee is perhaps the most colourful and fascinating – and a tad ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

The Ladies of the Committee - (5) Dr Jane Waterston

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While she may be better-known as South Africa’s first accredited female doctor *, Dr Jane Elizabeth Waterston’s story of perseverance, dedi...
Friday, April 15, 2022

The Ladies of the Committee - (4) Lady Alice Knox

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  In some ways, Lady Alice Knox is the odd woman out in the Ladies Committee. At the time of her appointment, she wasn’t a public campaigner...
Thursday, April 7, 2022

The Ladies of the Committee - (3) Katherine Blanche Brereton

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Katherine Blanche Brereton was born into a prominent landowning family in Norfolk in 1861. Like her fellow Committee member,  Lucy Deane , s...
Friday, March 4, 2022

The Ladies of the Committee - (2) Lucy Deane Streatfeild

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As I began my research into the next member of the Ladies Committee sent to South Africa to investigate the concentration camps during the ...
Friday, February 18, 2022

"In Quisling's Shadow. The Memoirs of Vidkun Quisling's first wife, Alexandra" (Book Review)

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This is not a new book, being published in 2007, but I was interested in it as part of some genealogical research I’m doing and it has relev...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

The Ladies of the Committee - (1) Millicent Garrett Fawcett

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Formidable. Frosty. Forthright. Just a few of the words that have been applied to Millicent Garrett Fawcett by her biographers and those wh...