The tale of the Activist Family: The Davenport Hills

Season: 4 Episode: 4

The Davenport Hill sisters lived in Hillstow on the site of Dorset House from 1897 until their deaths. They were both involved in prison reform, especially of the treatment of juvenile delinquents and the children of the poor, and Rosamond was also involved in educational reform and Florence in women's suffrage. They came from an illustrious three-generational family of reformers.

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SOURCES

Arnos Vale

The recorder of Birmingham : a memoir of Matthew Davenport Hill ; with selections from his correspondence

Bank of England

Oxford Journal - Saturday 01 November 1902

Australian Dictionary of Biography, Melbourne, Melboune University Press

Bristol Records Office

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