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Following a trail....
This grey February day I had an unexpected hour to while away. Through some ‘idle googling’ I happened onto the Plymouth Trail App...
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Linda ✨
- Jan 8
- 1 min
A Potpourri of Irish Tales by Mark Baird
Why a ‘Potpourri’ I asked myself in looking at the title? Is It simply a synonym for miscellany - the ‘medley of short stories’ of the...
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- Apr 24, 2022
- 2 min
Uncontrollable Women
It took more than half a century of campaigning before the right to vote in general elections was extended to some women. Lady Nancy...
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- Jan 10, 2022
- 3 min
Dear Queen
The State Opening marks the beginning of a parliamentary session when the Queen formally opens parliament and delivers a speech outlining...
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- Jun 30, 2021
- 2 min
People’s Republic of South Yorkshire: A Political Memoire 1970-1992
Through her memoire Helen the historian brings to life the story of community and politics in Sheffield and South Yorkshire between the...
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Linda ✨
- May 26, 2021
- 2 min
On re-reading Silent Spring
Rachel Carson was born one hundred and fourteen years ago, on 27th May 1907 in Springdale Pennsylvania. Her mother instilled in her a...
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- Apr 27, 2021
- 1 min
Murder, Bristol Fashion
It is Victorian Bristol 1864 and Louisa Grey emerges as a young sleuth with talent aplenty from the pages of this crime novel, the first...
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- Apr 24, 2021
- 6 min
A Tribute to my Mother
on 25th April 2021 which would have been her 100th birthday My mother was born Gwen Gray on 25th April 1921 in Croydon. As the centenary...
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- Apr 11, 2021
- 1 min
The Women in the Room
Sloane brings to her writing a wealth of practical experience of the ongoing struggle to acquire and use political power to change the...
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- Sep 21, 2020
- 1 min
Resilience is....
rolling with the dice, retaining your inner core, releasing the ties that bind, remembering one day we are all dust into dust, no more...
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- Aug 23, 2020
- 3 min
Honourable Ladies Volume 1
The first volume covers the years 1918 to 1996 and contains 168 profiles of women elected to represent constituencies from Aberdeen to...
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- Aug 19, 2020
- 4 min
Lucy Middleton
This is one of three mini bios I contributed to Honourable Ladies Volume 1 Full name Lucy (Annie) Middleton (nee Cox) Date of birth 19...
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- Aug 19, 2020
- 2 min
Never let yourself be limited....
This mini bio is one of four which I contributed to The Honourable Ladies Volume 2 Full name Candice Kathleen Atherton Date of birth...
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- Aug 19, 2020
- 1 min
Astor - 100 years of Women MP's
Plymouth people – including women using their vote for the first time – made history in 1919 when they played their part in electing Lady...
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- Jul 4, 2020
- 1 min
Frances Perkins
Originally published in the Summer 2020 edition of Order! Order! Was Frances Perkins "The most influential woman in democratic politics...
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- Jun 28, 2020
- 1 min
Fenaso Domeabra
is a place where time intercepts what timelessness is left of the tall forest canopies slighter trees weighted with precious bean...
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- Jun 28, 2020
- 1 min
Loves chocolate......
My involvement with Fairtrade chocolate and cocoa began by chance in late 2000. One lunchtime I took a break from the Westminster...
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- Jun 19, 2020
- 1 min
Wistmans' Wood
older and wiser than any living thing around these pendunculate oaks give ground to nothing and no one, the roots like tentacles trying...
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- Jun 17, 2020
- 3 min
Book Reviews
Women of Westminster by Rachel Reeves MP (originally published in Winter 2019 edition of Order! Order! – pre-December 2019 election) In...
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