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3 unusual facts about Kate Sharpley


Kate Sharpley

She is chiefly known today through the work of the library named in her honour.

At the age of 22, when called to receive her family's medals from Queen Mary (wife of George V) she threw the medals back at her, saying "if you like them so much you can have them".

The Kate Sharpley Library maintains an archive of original anarchist documents and publishes books and pamphlets based on those materials.



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