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When Were Women First Alone in the Forest?
The first woman in the twentieth century who signed up as a constable is in grantham. It's around the first world war, when you've got on the suffragette movement,. A couple of its s decide that then they should have women police with no status for women. They so sign up women ar as police constables with powers of arrest to help police thise massive munitions factories after the first World War. Shilous: What was the reaction of male counterparts to women being excluded from certain rolls? The history extra podcast starts at 9pm tonight and runs until 10pm tomorrow night.
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