David Chance: Seems rather bizarre to write a long piece about Eleanor Rathbone and the only mention of Liverpool is a throwaway “she is also remembered…” www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

Seems rather bizarre to write a long piece about Eleanor Rathbone and the only mention of Liverpool is a throwaway “she is also remembered…” www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

‘100% feminist’: how Eleanor Rathbone invented child benefit – and changed women’s lives for everwww.theguardian.com She was an MP and author with a formidable reputation, fighting for the rights of women and refugees, and opposing the appeasement of Hitler. Why isn’t she better known today?

She's one of my heroines. And Rathbone Place isn't even named after her, is it - the whole family were philanthropic, as I'm sure you know. It's just frustrating that typically at that time, despite being so actively involved the welfare movement, they were also involved in the cotton trade.

The Rathbones – Liverpool History Societyliverpoolhistorysociety.org.uk

That’s really interesting, thankyou.

One of my neighbours when I was growing up was the first Eleanor Rathbone chair at Liverpool. He was very nice and very smart.

Wow - glad to hear he was carrying on the tradition.

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