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Suffragette Rosaline McCheyne sitting on the ground
Suffragette Rosaline McCheyne (2nd from left) with family members . © Anne Padfield desc. of Rosaline McCheyne.
Cultural heritage Local Society Suffragettes 

Rosaline McCheyne: the unforgettable, forgotten East End Suffragette

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Her activism did not stop there. McCheyne was responsible for the admin work of the ELFS. She would organise pitches for the selling and distributing of the Woman’s Dreadnought (the ELFS’s newspaper) in the hopes of drawing in supporters and members. And this was not as “simple as it might sound” she said in an account of a day in her life. And yet, she could sell “more newspapers than any of the other districts”, from around twenty-eight a week to around a thousand in time.

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Poet Iftikhar Latif outside Hiland Cafe
Poet Iftikhar Latif outside Hiland Cafe where he holds his poetry slam nights
Arts & artists Local Society 

Iftikhar Latif on swapping his Oxford law degree for East End poetry slams

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‘When I first started I was mainly writing about how sad I was. Now I’m also thinking there are also these other things going on, like how I’m British Bangladeshi and how I come from East London but went to a really posh university.’

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