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Introducing history's radical women
Socialist historian Michael Herbert previews a course on radical women that he will be teaching in Salford in the spring: “Radical women: from women Levellers to the suffragettes.”
Millicent Fawcett, who founded the National Union of Women's Suffrage, speaks at the Suffragette Pilgrimage in Hyde Park, in July 1913
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IN MARCH I will begin teaching a 10 week course on radical women which begins with the women Levellers who challenged authority and tradition in the 1640s and ends with the suffragettes who also challenged authority and tradition before the first world war.
The aim of the course is to bring into the light the contribution made by women, both to general radical movements for social and political justice and to movements to advance the interests of women.
Socialist feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham once wrote a book called Hidden from History in which she highlighted how often women had been written out of radical history. Fifty years later this is still too often the case, with many women activists, and the movements they led, remaining in the shadows.
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