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unusual facts about National Anti-Sweating League


Vida Goldstein

She would stay on the periphery of the women's movement through the 1890s, but her primary interest during this period was with her school and urban social causes – particularly the National Anti-Sweating League and the Criminology Society.


Charles Strong

Strong founded the first crèche in Australia at Collingwood, one of the poorer suburbs of Melbourne, was an earnest supporter of the Anti-Sweating League, the Criminology Society, the Peace Society, and other organisations for social reform.

National Anti-Communist Front

Its members included the Anti-Communist Unification Party (PUA), Independent Anti-Communist Party of the West (PIACO), Anti-Сommunist University Students Committee (CEUA), Comités como el Cívico Independiente, Obrero Anticomunista, Femenino Anticomunista, de Locatarias, Asociación Juvenil Anticomunista, among others.

National Anti-Slavery Standard

The National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, established in 1840 under the editorship of Lydia Maria Child and David Lee Child.

National Anti-Vivisection Alliance

The report focused on US-cargo giant Amerijet International who were, at the time, shipping monkeys to American laboratories.

National Anti-Vivisection Society

The NAVS of the UK is the world’s first anti-vivisection organization, founded in 1875 by Frances Power Cobbe, a humanitarian who published many leaflets and articles opposing animal experiments, and gathered many notable people of the day to support our cause, including Queen Victoria and Lord Shaftesbury.

William R. Bradshaw

William Richard Bradshaw (1851–1927) was an Irish-born American author, editor and lecturer who served as president of the New York Anti-Vivisection Society.


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