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Thunder wrote: ↑23 Jul 2022, 18:44
There was the first woman MP in Parliament who actually took her seat (Nancy Astor) was well-known to be anti-semitic, not that mattered to TNA!.
If you're suggesting that Nancy Astor was also a suffragette, she showed no interest in the contemporaneous women’s suffrage. In fact, suffrage
campaigners were initially dismayed that Astor never had ties to their movement. Although in 1921 she did successfully reorganise the Consultative Committee of Women’s Organisations, established by suffragists in 1916.
One such example of TNA revisionist history is the case of Sophia Martha Tddd (https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/st ... ollection/) whom TNA think was not really guilty. In fact apart from the murder of the child for which she was found guilty, there were four other children of which she had no account of three of them and their bodies were found at her home. The overwhelming evidence is that she was involved in 'baby farming' and these cases were no accidents.
In my view the exhibition '20s people' should have exactly as stated, about men, women and LGBT people, the fact there were hardly any pictures of heterosexual men amongst them is wrong. TNA has gone 'ott' on LGBT and women in exhibitions and the like as heterosexual men are treated as 'persona non grata'.
Not really sure how you've arrived at your conclusion. You do seem hostile and bitter towards TNA for some reason.
Why would TNA make legal presumptions about any criminal case included in their records? They're a national archive, not the Daily Mail.
After reading TNA's story regarding Sophia Todd (https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/st ... phia-todd/) it's an interesting example for readers/researchers to do a deep-dive into this case and/or others like it. It's an "advert" for the Female Prisoners’ Licences collection (PCOM 4) for those interested.
Further to your Nancy Astor comments, it's a good job TNA probably have no reason to profile Coco Chanel. Now there's an antisemite and homophobe for you. Most of her paramours shared the same hateful ideology as her, including the Duke of Westminster (a/k/a "Bendor").
You do seem hostile and bitter towards TNA for some reason.