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            <text>1994</text>
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            <text>Involved in which fields of scholarship? &#13;
Photography&#13;
Most famous contribution(s) to scholarship 1 (i.e. in photography):  &#13;
Innovative work with children and later adults with learning difficulties&#13;
Most famous contribution(s) to scholarship 2 (i.e. in human rights):&#13;
Zero Tolerance Campaign&#13;
If you want to read one thing written by him/her, it should be: X&#13;
Find series Women Workers in the USSR (1989)&#13;
Any political involvement?&#13;
Campaigns: Marxist-feminism&#13;
Any religious involvement?&#13;
No&#13;
Other societies/groups in St Andrews?&#13;
Women’s liberation’s group&#13;
Student representative council&#13;
Associated places in St Andrews: (e.g. home, lab, favourite spot)&#13;
University buildings</text>
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            <text>Possible human interest story 1:&#13;
She bought her first camera after her time in St Andrews, on Lewis. She taught herself the art of photography. Her first exhibition: “Lewis Women” in the Stills Gallery, Edinburgh.&#13;
Possible human interest story 2:&#13;
Traveled widely in the service of her photography&#13;
Possible human interest story 3:&#13;
Women’s working life was her major theme in photography, in accordance with her political beliefs; through photography, she could record the work, while maintaining some professional distance to the persons; she first showed women working as an utopian world-view, but later she showed the harshness of their work (Zero Tolerance Campaign).&#13;
Possible human interest story 4:&#13;
At times, she survived only with black coffee and cigarettes&#13;
&#13;
Any eye-witness testimony/stories:&#13;
University of St Andrews Library: diaries etc (extracts available: http://www.frankirafflesarchive.org/documentary/)&#13;
Biographical sources: (e.g. OxDNB, family memoir, other...)&#13;
OxDNB&#13;
https://museumoftheuniversityofstandrews.wordpress.com/2018/04/22/franki-raffles-a-photographic-portfolio-on-feminism/ &#13;
http://www.frankirafflesarchive.org/biography/ &#13;
http://www.frankirafflesarchive.org/documentary/ </text>
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            <text>Family origins:&#13;
Father: Eric Raffles (manager of textile factory established by her grandfather)&#13;
Mother: Gillian Raffles, née Posnansky (director of Mercury gallery, London and Edinburgh)&#13;
Education:&#13;
Lady Eleanor Holles School, London&#13;
University of St Andrews&#13;
Private life/family life:&#13;
Partner Martin Sime&#13;
Daughter Anna Raffles&#13;
Separation in 1982&#13;
New partner Sandy Lunan 1983-1994 (lesbian)&#13;
(Professional) Role in St Andrews:&#13;
Student of Philosophy 1973-1977&#13;
Years in St Andrews:&#13;
1973-1977</text>
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              <text>Franki Raffles</text>
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              <text>1955</text>
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Photographer&#13;
Campaigner against violence against women&#13;
Philosopher</text>
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              <text>Francesco Alessandrini Lupia</text>
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              <text>Frances Rachel Raffles</text>
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