Records of the Women's Cooperative Guild (Cooperative Women's Guild) 1886-1970

Owen, Robert, 1771-1858

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Robert Owen (1771-1858) was born at Newtown, Wales to a working family, his father being employed as the local postmaster. From an early age Owen was encouraged to read and debate, and using this knowledge he was able to mentor the younger children at his school. Aged just 10 he left school and was apprenticed to a Mr James McGuffog, a linen draper from Stamford, Lincolnshire, and, according to his Autobiography, he was independent from his parents from this point onwards. ...

Freundlich, Emmy, 1878-1948

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Acland Alice fl 1883

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Women's Cooperative Guild, Hull Branch

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The Women's Cooperative Guild began as the Woman's League for the Spread of Cooperation in 1883 and changed its name in 1885. It was founded by Alice Acland and Mary Lawrenson and the first branch was in Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire. In 1889 Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861-1944), a graduate of Girton, became general secretary and from 1893 she had as her assistant Lilian Harris (d.1950). They worked tirelessly, producing pamphlet literature and visiting new branches and became very involved women's...

Davies, Margaret Llewelyn, 1861-1944

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Epithet: suffragette British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x000152 ...

Scottish Women's Cooperative Guild

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Women's League for the Spread of Cooperation

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Harris Lilian fl 1910-1920

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Webb Catherine fl 1890-1927

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Lawrenson Mary 1883-1889

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International Women's Cooperative Guild

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The International Guild of Cooperative Women was formed in 1921 at the International Cooperative Congress held in Basle in that year. The first president was Emmy Freundlich of the Austrian Women's Guild and the first secretary was Honora Enfield of England. It survived as an independent organization until 1963 when it became a committee of the International Cooperative Alliance. Most of the papers of the Guild are in Vienna where Emmy Freundlich was based. The early ide...

Irish Women's Cooperative Guild

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