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Statue honours ‘hidden’ political activist Elizabeth Andrews

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Andrews turned to politics from an early age, her great-great-niece Melinda Hawthorne said.

“She started quite young because she sat at her father’s knee, and there was a lot of discussion about politics,” Hawthorne added.

“She wasn’t fully educated, but she was able to go out and talk to people. She was amazing, and quite a remarkable woman.

“She was a suffragist, she was the first secretary for the women’s guild in the Rhondda, the first woman Labour Party Organiser for Wales.

“But she’s another one of these women that have been hidden.”

Hawthorne said she was known by local women as “Our Elizabeth” because she wanted “better equality”.

“Her motto was ‘educate, agitate, organise’,” she added.

“This is really about educating people about what their rights are, what is available to them. Agitate is getting people out there on the streets to get the things they need, and then organising that.”

Andrews fought for better maternity and childcare and helped to establish one of the earliest nursery schools in Wales.


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