Cook, Ida [pseud. Mary Burchell] (1904–1986), author and campaigner for Jewish refugees, was born on 24 August 1904 at 37 Croft Avenue, Sunderland, the second of four children of William James Cook (1865–1959), surveyor of customs and excise, and his wife, Mary, ...
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Cook, Ida [pseud. Mary Burchell] (1904–1986), author and campaigner for Jewish refugees
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Wilson, Paulette Marjorie (1956–2020), victim of injustice and migrant rights campaigner
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Wilson, Paulette Marjorie (1956–2020), victim of injustice and migrant rights campaigner, was born in Jamaica on 20 March 1956. In 1968, the year that the Conservative MP Enoch Powell delivered his infamous ‘rivers of blood’ speech in Birmingham, she was sent to live with her grandparents in ...