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Ann Trevenen Jenkin

Ann Trevenen Jenkin

Mmm – yes, I’m founding member of – em – Mebyon Kernow, but I’m also – I was the first woman Grand Bard of Cornwall [tut] so that – that was quite a – er – flag for freedom [laughs]

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Moira Macdonald

Moira Macdonald 1980's and 1990's feminist badges - Exeter

Recorded on 20.05.2019 by Carmen Talbot. Transcript by Jayde Stevenson All I knew was that there were women, first of all at school that I felt attracted to, and then at university. And it wasn’t until a long time afterwards…

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Diana Derioz

Diana Derioz

Transcript by Jayde Stevenson My mother was an activist you see and she just passed it down. They were talking about breast feeding on the radio and I was thinking, yeah my mum gave me that and I gave it

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Alison Williams

Alison Williams poster

Transcript by Jayde Stevenson From Dartington… um… I’d joined Dartington College Women’s Group and… we… basically organised buses to go up to Greenham Common… and we’d stay there, umm… we’d stay there in a little caravan, sort of four of

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Lizi Jamal

Lizi Jamal

I was just thinking first of all uh about how my parents considered me rebellious. My Mother oh one of the memories she often says about me and she says to people about her rebellious daughter and her feminist daughter

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Melissa Hardie

Melissa Hardie

Transcript forthcoming

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Avril Silk

Avril Silk Just Women Magazine

Transcript forthcoming.

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Sarah Scaife

Sarah Scaife

I was aware of feminism from being- dunno thirteen fourteen and I I identified myself as a feminist from then and when I was seventeen I went to Greenham Common on the um embrace the base d- day when there

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Linda Regan MBE

Linda Regan MBE

I think I would say that I’ve been involved in some form of activism since I was 16/17 years of age which is a long time ago now as I’m just about to hit 65 and I would say that

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