My friend Gunnel Ingham, who has died aged 92, always stood up for what she believed to be right. For many years she single-handedly ensured that her Amnesty International UK group in Haslemere, Surrey, kept going.
Gunnel grew up in Sweden, loving books, science and languages, and trained to be a librarian at Stockholm central library, working there from 1953 to 1965. Swedish nature was also a great passion, with many summers spent in the Stockholm archipelago. She explored postwar Europe and Egypt, and first worked in Britain on a library exchange scheme run by Middlesex County libraries in Harrow in the early 1960s.
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