This year to celebrate International Women’s Day, Library and Digital Assistant Alexandra Brummitt takes a closer look at the lives and works of some lesser-known feminist pioneers that lived in Leeds. International Women’s Day is held on March 8th every year and is a global celebration of the social, economic and political achievements of women….
Tag: anti-slavery
Slavery in Yorkshire
This week on the blog we hear from Library Officer Ruairí Lewis about a heated debate between two leading local men in the early 19th-century… In 1830, the ‘Tory Radical’ Richard Oastler sent an open letter to the Leeds Mercury, owned and edited by prominent Leeds liberal Edward Baines (1774-1848), entitled ‘Slavery in Yorkshire’. Oastler…
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