Article: "The other vote goes to the sister": Roberta MacAdams wanted something more than a woman's lot. The Great War gave her more. Soldiers elected her to government at a time when women in government were virtually unknown.(Biography)

On a hot day in May, I stop at a busy fish market on the dock in Boulogne. Fishermen pour buckets of gleaming plaice, cod, and black-shelled mussels onto white shelves in wooden stalls while their wives chat and keep watchful eyes open for customers. There has been a market here for hundreds of years. Photographs from the late nineteenth century show pipe-smoking men standing next to cartloads of fish, while wide-hipped women in long skirts look for the best price. Their calm, friendly expressions reveal little of the tumultuous history of this place where the cold North Sea meets the English Channel. Boulogne has been more than just an ideal location for fishing. It has ...

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