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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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Melissa Hardie

Melissa Hardie

Transcript by Jayde Stevenson I’ve never slowed down from earliest days and I’m now 79. People are forever remarking that they don’t know how I do everything I do. I’ve never looked upon it as being particularly social activism. In

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Hilary Coleman and Sally Burley

Hilary Coleman and Sally Burley

Transcript by Jayde Stevenson Since I was about 19, I guess, I was playing Cornish music, um, on my clarinet and also singing. Umm… and then I met Sal- how many years ago? Oh, twenty something… yeah 20 years ago

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Dr. Amy Frost

High Street Bath

Transcript by Jayde Stevenson So… Bath went through a really dark period, the darkest period of Bath’s architectural history, um… was between about 1963 and 1975, umm… and it became known as ‘the Sack of Bath’ and during this period

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