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Jenny Lloyd

Jenny Lloyd

‘We were very embedded in Exeter Labour Party and there were obviously these big national rallies, so we went up and then Kate… Becca was in a pushchair. When I was in the Labour party, I organised… I was a

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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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Rosemary Schonfeld

Rosemary Schonfeld SouthWest for Europe Rally Bristol 14.10.17

Recorded by Carmen Talbot on 24.10.2018 Transcript by Jayde Stevenson I probably need to go back a little bit, um, in terms of how I got into the… I suppose the activism anyway, which was through the gay liberation movement,

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Rosemarie Cawson

Rosemarie Cawson Greenham Common headband

So I have now ended up in a care home and I’m very old, but I remember, and we have just worked out how old I was when I attended Greenham (Greenham Common), well visited Greenham and I was a

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Fiona Green

Fiona Green image of Ursula from newspaper climbing silo

Transcript by Jayde Stevenson It was 1980… or ’81 – I can’t remember exactly… um, my mother had gone on ahead – she’d gone on in 1980. Um, and she rang and told me the whole story about the women

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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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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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Elizabeth Marchant

CND logo on badge

I just began to think about, you know, how many children in the world – um, do – suffer and are treated less than they should be. And – from that, I uh you know, the amount of money that

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