So the question probably is why, why is the BUF pushing these types of messages

at all? I think it wanted to widen its appeal.

I think it wanted to win newly enfranchised women as supporters and as voters.

And there's also this connection to fascist policies to raise the birth rates.

And to use that to strengthen Britain's position in the world.

But even sort of mentioning that, you know, that really starts to highlight some of the contradictions around these policies.

And, you know, while they were advocating for, you know, policies that seem to be really promoting women's rights, there was...

but the leadership actually remains tied to Axis interests.

We know by 1921, she is, she's engaged with the Labour Party youth.

Yeah.

Um, it's kind of interesting to see her getting engaged so young.

Um, maybe speaks a bit w- you know, to the wider, uh, sort of family political perspective.

Um, yeah, and obviously she was involved in, in Labour and the Labour movement from quite early on.

Um, but then, um, when she's 15, she joins the Communist Party, um, and she's, you know, she's there right at the start of that.

Um, the Communist Party of Great Britain was founded in 1920, but in 1921 really sort of marks that moment, the sort of critical moment where it became a political force.

She racks up a really impressive list of political activity and achievements across her career.

But who was seen as fully belonging in Britain during the 1930s, right? Who was British and who wasn't?

Yeah.

And all of these questions are sitting just beneath the surface as we head towards October 1936.

And we can also see all of this sort of swirling around in the newspapers as the British Union fascist march approaches.

And you get a distinct sense that most newspapers don't approve of fascism, but they're also not outright sort of denouncing it in the way that we would expect.

And there was only a few newspapers that really came out and were vocal about this.

So the Star was the only non-communist newspaper to directly support a call for the sort of mass turnout of workers to stop Mosley and stop the march.

So this is really the point, Beth, where the family enters the story in a really visible way.

There is growing antisemitism in Europe, and this is all led by Oswald Mosley.

So it's got to have felt like quite a threatening time.

Must have felt like a real provocation and a real threat.

They've already fled persecution.

We've got blockades that have been built, and literally built with, like, chairs and tables.

It definitely reads as prejudice.