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100 years of women’s work

Posted by: Angie Tailby, Archivist, DWP Research Library, DWP Digital, Posted on: 1 March 2018 - Categories: Diversity, DWP Digital, Equality, International Women's Day, Women in Technology

I’m Angie Tailby, an Archivist in the DWP Research Library, DWP Digital. I’ve been looking through the archives in celebration of the centenary of the women’s suffrage movement.

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