In Poland and in Britain, hidden threads of history can sometimes coincide. The fight for women’s votes is one of those, since Nineteen Eighteen saw us each succeed – at least in some initial victory, five years after cold Norway won the race. In Poland, after Independence came. In Britain, after decades of campaign. Campaigns … [Read more...] about Winning the Vote for Women in Britain
Flash Non-Fiction
Britain’s Champions of Free Speech
Each nation has its Free Speech champions, its women and its men who’ve challenged laws or blinkered moral standards of the day. Subjective lists, of course. Each to our own, depending on our politics, I guess. And my own “major league” was hard to choose. John Milton was the first who sprang to mind. He wrote his staunch attack on … [Read more...] about Britain’s Champions of Free Speech