Very interesting thread and sobering to think that she would now be classified as a terrorist by this government.
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🧵PART 1 - Born in Hunslet, Leeds OTD 15 June 1873, Leonora Cohen (Throp) was a pioneering suffragette and trades unionist. She was driven by her widowed mother's financial struggles as a poorly paid local seamstress and lack of political empowerment. Leonora worked as a milliner and rose to become a