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1st class - Millicent
Garrett Fawcett
Millicent Garrett was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England. As a
suffragist, she took a moderate line, but was a tireless campaigner,
concentrating much of her energy on the struggle to improve women's
opportunities for higher education. In 1871, she co-founded Newnham
College, Cambridge. She later became president of the National Union of
Women's Suffrage Societies (the NUWSS), a position she held from 1897
until 1919.
48p - Elizabeth
Garrett Anderson
Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (June 9, 1836 - December 17,
1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a
medical qualification in Britain.
50p - Marie
Stopes
Marie Stopes (October 15, 1880 - October 2, 1958) was a Scottish
author, eugenicist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the
field of family planning. Stopes edited the journal Birth Control News
which gave anatomically explicit advice, and in addition to her
enthusiasm for protests at places of worship this provoked protest from
both the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. Her sex
manual Married Love, which was written while she was still a virgin,
was controversial and influential.
56p - Eleanor
Rathbone
Eleanor Florence Rathbone (May 12, 1872 - January 2, 1946) was an
Independent British Member of Parliament and long-term campaigner for
women's rights.
72p - Claudia
Jones
Claudia Jones (February 15, 1915-December 24, 1964) was born in
Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad. She was a feminist, Black
Nationalist, political activist, community leader, journalist, and
communist in the U.S.. She is also remembered in the UK as 'the mother
of Notting Hill Carnival'. As a result of the post-war cocoa price
crash in Trinidad, when she was eight years old, she moved to Harlem,
New York. She went on to win the Theodore Roosevelt Award for Good
Citizenship at her junior high school.
81p - Barbara
Castle
Barbara Castle (October 6, 1910 - May 3, 2002) was a British left-wing
politician, born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire (and brought up in
Pontefract and Bradford, Yorkshire), who adopted her family's politics,
joining the Labour Party. Elected to Parliament in 1945, she rose to
become one of the most important Labour party politicians of the
twentieth century.
Designed by Together Design, the stamps are printed in gravure by Walsall Security Printers. The stamps are 35mm x 37mm and are in sheets of 25/50. All images are by kind permission of Royal Mail, Copyright 2008. This website is copyright Norvic Philatelics 2008.
Products
issued:
First Day Covers There is no Norvic FDC for this issue.
Royal Mail FDCs
Mint set
Presentation Pack
Set of 6 Stamp Cards unused
Special Postmarks
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| Ref FD825 Philatelic Bureau Official Postmark with text 'Through thick and thin we will never give in' |
Ref FD826 Aldeburgh Suffolk official postmark with text 'Believe and you will conquer' |
Ref FD826NP Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Official non-pictorial Postmark |
Ref L11129 Downing Street, London SW1A |
Ref M11132 Suffrage Street, Smethwick |
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| Ref L11128 Boadicea Street, London N1 |
Ref L11127 Equality for Women, Heathrow, Middlesex |
Ref L11126 BP WW2 Bletchley Park Veteran |
Ref L11125 Parliament Square, London SW1A |
Ref W11142 'PILLS', Pill, Bristol |
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Ref L11123 Ladywell, London SE13 |
Ref L11145 Women's Rights, London |
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