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
Jersey prisoners’ liberation revealed by the Foreign Office
- Channel Islanders who had been sent to prisons in mainland Europe during the Occupation were liberated in April 1945.
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Daniel Brevint, Dean of Lincoln, is born in Jersey
- Daniel Brevint was son and grandson of Channel Islands clergymen (his father in Jersey and his grandfather in Sark) and became Dean of Lincoln.
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Traffic returns to the “right” side of the road
- Throughout the occupation, the Channel Islands moved to German time and traffic switched from the left-hand side of the road to the right.
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An Occupation escape attempt goes wrong
- Three Jersey men were captured when their wartime escape attempt failed. They were sent to mainland Europe where Maurice Gould died.
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