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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: a woman like no other
PETER FROST celebrates the life of a proud suffragette and pioneering medic who died just one year before her sex was granted the vote
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (centre) with Emmeline Pankhurst
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that a legal framework exists for a closure of US and Nato military base in Ramstein
ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON was born in the summer of 1836 in Whitechapel, east London. A proud and active suffragette, she would, sadly, die just one year before her sex achieved the vote here in Britain.
One of her greatest achievements still exists in London. Her New Hospital for Women, renamed the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in 1918, still serves women as University College Hospital Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing.
Her original hospital is now part of the national headquarters of Unison. The HQ has a gallery that pays tribute to and tells the story of this remarkable woman.
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