Project ID: 788
| Description | Charlotte Despard: “A misfit, a rebel and a legend” While Charlotte Despard is well known for her work as a suffragist, her work with the poor is less recognised. Despard left her upper middle-class life and home in Esher, Surrey to move to one of the most deprived areas of London and improve the lives of the people that lived there. She helped make fundamental changes to regulations surrounding outdoor relief and improved the lives of those in workhouses. Her legacy of change was monumental. |
| Topics | Social history |
| Type | U3A-led research (SLP) |
| U3A | |
| Year started | 2018 |
| Source of reference | Citizens 800 website - see below |
| Notes | This is one of number of SLPs linked to the Citizens project at Royal Holloway College - see file card 547 for details See www.citizens.org/U3A for more information |