Talk:Richard Pankhurst (historian)

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Did you know... that Richard Pankhurst, founder of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, is the son of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst?

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Sylvia later told a reporter for the British tabloid News of the World that her son was a "eugenic" baby, because he was born to two intelligent adults free from hereditary disease and untrammeled by social convention.^[1]

Sydney Poore/FloNight ♥♥♥♥ 21:46, 8 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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^ Michela Wrong, I didn't do it for you: How the world betrayed a small African nation (New York: Harper-Perennial, 2006), p. 120. Wrong later in the same chapter observes that Pankhurst "only became aware of this quirky claim to fame when he had emerged from childhood and was thankfully immune to teasing" (p. 138).

[1] Michela Wrong, I didn't do it for you: How the world betrayed a small African nation (New York: Harper-Perennial, 2006), p. 120. Wrong later in the same chapter observes that Pankhurst "only became aware of this quirky claim to fame when he had emerged from childhood and was thankfully immune to teasing" (p. 138).

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