13th May 1951
Feminist and journalist Rosie Boycott is born
Rosie Boycott co-founded Spare Rib in 1972. Described by the British Library as “iconic”, it sought to challenge the way women were both treated and portrayed and has come to be recognised as one of the most important feminist publications ever produced. It continued to be published until 1993.
Newspaper editor
However, Boycott’s publishing activities haven’t been confined only to women’s-interest titles. She edited the Independent, Independent on Sunday and Daily Express newspapers, and men’s magazine Esquire in the UK. As a journalist, she has written for the Daily Mail, Sunday Telegraph and magazines including Harpers & Queen.
Born in St Helier, Boycott became Baroness Boycott of Whitefield in the County of Somerset on 9 July 2018, when nominated for a life peerage by the House of Lords Appointments Commission.
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Other events that occured in May
Measles outbreak at the boys’ home
- Measles infected 35 residents of the Jersey home for boys in what came to be described variously as an “epidemic” or “plague”.
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Jersey’s last ever death sentence is passed
- The last man sentenced to death on Jersey had his sentence commuted to life in prison, as had become customary, in 1984.
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Jersey hosts UK’s first post-war Grand Prix
- British driver Reg Parnell won the 1947 Jersey International Road Race, considered to be the UK's first post World War II Grand Prix race.
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Father commits suicide by slashing his own throat
- John Moignard was determined to kill himself. He drank a bottle of ammonia before slashing his throat with a razor blade.
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