The 'Member for Refugees'

Susan Pedersen introduces Eleanor Rathbone who devoted her career as a politician and social reformer during the turbulent interwar years to improving the lot of women and refugees.

A Low cartoon on the situation of the Gijon refugees, from the Evening Standard, October 29th, 1937, shortly after Rathbone's speech on their plight.When Neville Chamberlain returned from Mun

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