{"id":23491,"date":"2025-03-06T22:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=pamphlets&#038;p=23491"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:11:55","slug":"annie-townley","status":"publish","type":"pamphlets","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/pamphleteer\/annie-townley\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie Townley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Annie Townley (1878-1966)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Annie Townley: A force for socialism and peace<\/em> describes a remarkable journey from working-class Lancashire textile mill worker to employment as a Bristol-based organiser in the suffrage and labour movements. In many cases using Annie\u2019s own words, June Hannam brings to life a character dedicated to working-women\u2019s rights and social justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of us who have been called dreamers and who believe in Socialism, wonder if it had not been better for our City Fathers to have opened their hearts and purse strings in the account books of the city and started for these factory girls a real home industry \u2026 We are a nation of shoddy clothes individuals. Some day I hope there will be no goods manufactured cheap and nasty for <em>profit<\/em>, but pure and wholesome for <em>use<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annie Townley (1878-1966) Annie Townley: A force for socialism and peace describes a remarkable journey from working-class Lancashire textile mill worker to employment as a Bristol-based organiser in the suffrage and labour movements. 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