Welcome to the History Extra Podcast,

Fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine.

Eklentine Jeb was a woman who had no real love of children. But nevertheless worked tirelessly to campaign for their rights.

Claire Mully joins us to discuss the life and work of a pioneering fundraiser and the

founder of the International Save the Children Fund, whose personal life defied the strictures of her class.

I'm joined today by Claire Mully, and we're talking about Eglantine Jeb, who is the subject of Claire's book, The

Women Who Save the Children.

Claire thank you so much for joining me for today's episode.

Oh it's always fantastic talking about Eglentine.

Isn't it just I can't wait for our listeners to hear more right here today?

And we're going to jump straight into

Egglentine story we're going to meet her in 1919 and a particular thing

happens to Egglentine to this stage she's very active in a certain way can we

talk about Egglentine can we hear from you on her activism?

It's not so much happens to her as she storms in and makes things happen.

But yeah, so in 1990 and ended the First World War, Eglinton is in Trafalgar Square, a traditional site of public

protests where the suffragettes were, and she is campaigning

for a cause that she herself is highlighting and no one else seems to be paying attention to, which

is she's campaigning to end the economic blockade to Europe.

So this is after the armises,

pieces being negotiated if you like still, but there has been a ceasefire of course.

And she realizes that the government are continuing the economic blockade to Europe

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