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Madge Syers
We are now used to there being male and female versions of many sports; women’s football, women’s athletics and so forth. But in the very early part of the 20th [...]

Writers

  • Hilda Matheson

    During a recent tour of New Broadcasting House I saw a large freize of people who had been influencial in the early days of the BBC. Lord Reith of course but I was pleasantly [...]

Artists

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    Margaret Tait

    Margaret Tait was a pioneering filmmaker for whom words and images made the world real. In ‘documentary’, she wrote, real things ‘lose their reality and there’s no [...]

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    Beryl Burton

    Beryl Burton was an English cyclist who won more than 90 domestic championships and seven world titles. On 17 September 1967, at the UK National Time Trial, Beryl rode a staggering 277.25 miles in 12 hours around the lanes of Yorkshire. This was a world record for both men and women! It was two [...]

Scientists

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    Ada Lovelace

    Introduction by Hollie Weatherstone I first saw Keira Daley last August performing in her award-winning nerdy/funny/fact-packed cabaret tribute to some of history’s [...]

Adventurers

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    Queen Zenobia

    Zenobia was a 3rd-century Queen of the Palmyra who led a revolt against the Roman Empire. She [...]

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    Mary Ward

    The wiki entry for Mary Ward starts “Mary Ward (nun)”. True, Mary was a nun, indeed she [...]

Politicians

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    Barbara Castle

    Copyright LET provided by the copyright holder for use in the Cotton Town digitisation project. [...]

Humanitarians

  • Corrie ten Boom

    Ravensbrück concentration camp was unusual in that it was built solely for women. During World War [...]

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