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Intro -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Campaigners -- Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry - The 35's -- Helen Bamber OBE -- Ursula Owen -- 2. Agony Aunts -- Marjorie Proops OBE -- Clare Rayner OBE -- 3. Politicians -- Bertha Sokoloff -- Shirley Porter -- Edwina Currie -- Dame Margaret Hodge DBE -- Dame Louise Ellman DBE -- Luciana Berger -- Ruth Smeeth, Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent -- 4. Media -- Eve Pollard OBE -- Dame Esther Rantzen DBE -- Kay Mellor OBE -- Emily Maitlis -- Emma Barnett -- Nicola Mendelsohn CBE -- 5. Lawyers -- Dame Rose Heilbron DBE -- Myrella Cohen KC -- 6. Doctors -- Elsie Landau -- Hannah Billig MBE -- Miriam Stoppard OBE -- 7. Scientists -- Hertha Ayrton -- Rosalind Franklin -- Nina Wederburn -- Professor Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE -- 8. Religious Figures/Leaders -- Background - Lily Montagu CBE -- Baroness Julia Neuberger DBE -- Rabbi Elizabeth Tikva Sarah -- Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz -- Conclusion -- Bibliography and Sources -- Endnotes -- Index.

Introduction -- The Malay administrative system on the eve of British rule -- The Pangkor Agreement and the start of British residential system -- The years of divided affiliations (1930-c.1942) -- The post-war years and the consociational logic -- May 1969 and the events leading to it.

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