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Catherine Webb (co-operative Activist)
Catherine Webb (4 May 1859 – 29 July 1947) was an influential activist in the early cooperative movement, writer and educator.Scott, Gillian (2007) She was general secretary of the Women's Industrial Council (WIC), general secretary of the Co-operative Women's Guild and vice-president of Morley College. Early life Webb was born on 4 May 1859 in Battersea, London, and she had a brother, Arthur Webb. She was the daughter of Thomas Edward Burgess Webb, a journeyman coppersmith and the manager of the Battersea and Wandsworth Cooperative Society. Her mother was Catherine Webb (''née'' Young). Her father worked his way up from poverty through the cooperative movement, allowing his children to be raised as middle-class. Webb's comfortable upbringing brought question to the class in which she identified, as she later referred to herself as “a working-woman.” Career Webb joined the Women's Co-operative Guild in 1883 and became one of the most visible women of the movement, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Battersea
Battersea is a large district in southwest London, part of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is centred southwest of Charing Cross and also extends along the south bank of the Thames Tideway. It includes the Battersea Park. History Battersea is mentioned in the few surviving Anglo-Saxon geographical accounts as and later . As with many former parishes beside tidal flood plains the lowest land was reclaimed for agriculture by draining marshland and building culverts for streams. By the side of this was the River Heathwall, Heathwall tide mill in the north-east with a very long mill pond regularly draining and filling to the south. Battersea () appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 in Surrey within the Hundred (county division), hundred of Hundred_of_Brixton, Brixton () as a vast manor held by St Peter's Abbey, Westminster. Its ''Domesday'' assets were: 18 hide (unit), hides and 17 ploughlands of cultivated land; 7 gristmill, mills worth £42 9s 8d per year, of m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rosalind Nash
Rosalind Frances Nash, née Shore-Smith (December 1862 – 17 October 1952) was a journalist and British co-operative movement, co-operator. She was the niece and confidante of Florence Nightingale. Biography Rosalind Shore-Smith was born into a landowning family in Kensington, London, in December 1862. She was the elder daughter of Florence Nightingale's cousin William Shore Smith (afterwards Shore Nightingale), whom Florence Nightingale "regarded almost as a brother". She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, Girton College, University of Cambridge, where she became close friends with Margaret Llewelyn Davies. Barbara, Lady Stephen, Barbara (nee Margaret Thyra Barbara Shore-Smith), Rosalind's sister, married barrister and Judge of the Calcutta High Court Sir Harry Lushington Stephen. In 1893, Nash married the progressive economist Vaughan Nash (1861–1932) and they lived at Loughton in Essex. Nash was a member of the Co-operative Women's Guild, which she referred to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Activists From London
Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived common good. Forms of activism range from mandate building in a community (including writing letters to newspapers), petitioning elected officials, running or contributing to a political campaign, preferential patronage (or boycott) of businesses, and demonstrative forms of activism like rallies, street marches, strikes, sit-ins, or hunger strikes. Activism may be performed on a day-to-day basis in a wide variety of ways, including through the creation of art (artivism), computer hacking (hacktivism), or simply in how one chooses to spend their money (economic activism). For example, the refusal to buy clothes or other merchandise from a company as a protest against the exploitation of workers by that company could be considered an expression of activism. However, the term commonly refers to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
People From Battersea
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
