Emily Hobhouse (1860-1926)
Yesterday was the birthday of Emily Hobhouse , a British welfare campaigner, pacifist, and anti-war campaigner. I hope you all take the time to read Emily’s story here, and the excerpts from her writings which I am going to post on my blog, because they may be some of the most important posts I’ve shared because they are fundamental in highlighting the cruelty and hypocrisy of British colonialism, and how it has been erased by British propaganda from the 1800s to the present day. TRIGGER WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES AND SOME INFORMATION THAT MAY BE UPSETTING. Emily Hobhouse (1860 – 1926) is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the deprived conditions inside the British concentration camps in South Africa built to incarcerate Boer and African civilians during the Second Boer War. Born in St Ive s in Cornwall, she was the daughter of Caroline and Reginald Hobhouse, an Anglican rector and the first Archdeacon of Bodmin. She was