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A HIDDEN HISTORY:
African Women and the
British Health Service

1930–2000

Gallery:

Activism

Princess Tsehai, Emperor Haile Selassie's daughter speaking at an engagement (undated)

Blanche La Guma (left), a retired South African nurse, protesting outside South Africa House in London (1976)

Dorothy Boswell, Elizabeth Anionwu and Lonzie L Jones of the US’s National Association for Sickle Cell Disease (1977). Credit: Guy Crowder

Elizabeth Anionwu, a founder of the Brent Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Centre, with her friend Jessica Huntley, a women's and community rights activist (Notting Hill Carnival, 1977)

Brent Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Centre Christmas Party

Elizabeth Anionwu (centre), a founder of the Brent Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Centre, with her friend Olive Morris (far right), a founder of the Brixton Black women's group (1978)

Sherlene Rudder, Cynthia McLetchie, Winston McLaren, Ismay Nimblette and Elizabeth Anionwu (1979) Credit: Archant

Elizabeth Anionwu at the Brent Sickle Cell Centre (1980)

Elizabeth Anionwu at the Brent Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Centre

"Nurses from around the country queuing outside Westminster to lobby their MPs as part of a Nursing Times campaign calling for the provision of courrses to enable State Enrolled Nurses (SENs) to convert to Registered nurse status. 7th December 1989".

Blanche La Guma, a retired South African nurse, with the staff of Soviet Weekly (London, 1991)

Elizabeth Anionwu, a founder of the Brent Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Centre, with Jocelyn Barrow, community activist and politician

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