National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

In the bitterly severe winter of 1962-3 MD , visiting England and planning a book about child abuse, began accompanying workers for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children as they made...

May Hartley (formerly ML ) joined the Executive Committee of the Dublin branch of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children .

EF was also interested in a range of other social causes: she advocated improved housing and sanitation for the poor, and championed the rights of children and animals, promoting the endeavours of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

HS attended the meeting at the Mansion House where plans were made for founding the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children .

This society later became the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children or NSPCC. The meeting of twenty people included Angela Burdett-Coutts and the Earl of Shaftesbury . HS wrote the report for...

MD published Kate and Emma, a book about child abuse; she did research for it by accompanying NSPCC case-workers on their rounds in London in the bitterly severe winter of 1962-3.

Other topics touched on here are the prison experience of her nationalist friend Michael Davitt , her own experiences on the Executive Committee of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children , and...