"For me, the point of doing history has been about how understanding the past might help us to improve people’s lives in the present. You can see that so clearly in relation to women’s rights or in relation to racial inequality."
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Historians from EnglandFeminists from EnglandWomen academics from EnglandWomen born in the 1940sFellows of the British Academy
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