News & Comment

Rose and Nellie Cohen and Anastasia Bitsenko

by

Rebellious Daughter’s of History #17 by Judy Cox From suffrage to Stalins Purges: Rose and Nellie Cohen The Cohen sisters were the daughters of Maurice and Ada Cohen, refugees from Poland who settled in Whitechapel in 1884. Rose was born in 1894. As teenagers, Rose and Nellie joined Sylvia Pankhurst’s radical women’s suffrage Movement in […]

Angelica Balabanoff and Helen Keller

by

Rebellious Daughters of history #16 by Judy Cox International revolutionary Angelica Balabanoff (1878-1965) Angelica Balabanoff, was by any standards an extraordinary person. Born to Jewish parents, in Kiev, Ukraine in 1878, she left home aged 19 to study at a radical university in Brussels where she met Russian and Italian Marxists. After graduating, she continued […]

Dominic Scummings

by

Dominic Cummings. Typing the name causes an involuntary shiver of disgust. Cummings is currently the Chief Adviser to UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. Cummings was also the campaign director of the successful Vote Leave (pro-Brexit) campaign, and a special adviser to Michael Gove between 2007 and 2014. Some credentials. Despite often portraying himself – as […]

Catherine Impey, Ida B Wells and Mika Feldman de Etchebéhère

by

Rebellious Daughters of History #15 by Judy Cox Catherine Impey (1847-1923) Catherine Impey was a radical Quaker who lived in Street, Somerset. She travelled around America 1870s and was horrified by the racism she witnessed. Her small home became a meeting place for black activists including Frederick Douglass who visited her in 1888. After meeting […]

Helen Crawfurd and Selina Cooper

by

Rebellious Daughters of History #13 by Judy Cox Rent striker, suffragist and communist: Helen Crawfurd Helen Jack was born in the Gorbals, a working class area of Glasgow. Her mother worked a steam-loom and her father was a baker. Helen became active in the women’s suffrage movement around 1900, and in 1910 she joined the […]

Nadezhda Udaltsova and Susanna Inge

by

Rebellious Daughters of History #12 by Judy Cox Painting the Revolution – Nadezhda Udaltsova (1885-1961) Nadezhda was one of a group of Russian avant-guard painters who were part of a great flowering of creative experimentation following the Revolution of 1917. Before 1914, Nadezhda studied painting in Paris, experimented with Constructivism and later joined the Suprematist […]

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth and Crystal Eastman

by

Rebellious Daughters of History #11 by Judy Cox Factory Girl, Socialist and Writer: Ethel Carnie Holdsworth (1886 – 1962), Ethel Carnie was born into a weaving family in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire. She started working part-time work in the mill at age eleven and worked full-time from thirteen. In her later articles for the Woman Worker, she […]