Baroness Summerskill’s early political life in Harringay
Dr Edith Summerskill, Labour politician and feminist, began her political life in Harringay.
She entered active politics almost by chance when she was 32 and in practice in Wood Green…she was asked to fight the Green Lanes ward of Harringay in the Middlesex County Council elections, a safe Conservative seat, and she won with a healthy majority.
Obituary, British Medical Journal Feb 16th 1980

Jind Kaur, last queen of the Punjab
Beatrice Offor’s work was bequeathed to Bruce Castle Museum Haringey. She lived with her second husband at 8 Bruce Grove, Tottenham, opposite the Bruce Castle Museum unil her death in 1920.
The pictures used to personalise this blog are all by Beatrice Offor
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Miriam Makeba

Mama Africa…singing ‘til the day she died