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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

  • Kate Charlesworth

    Kate Charlesworth When asked about the shortage of female cartoonists Merrily Harper, freelance cartoonist and writer, said “Being funny is quite a male activity … [...]

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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 [...]

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    Mary Somerville

    Mary Fairfax Somerville was a Scottish scientist, mathematician, writer and polymath dubbed the Queen of Nineteenth Century Science. How’s that for an introduction! [...]

Adventurers

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    Margaret Bulkley

    Born around 1790, Margaret Ann Bulkley, known throughout her adult life as James Barry, was a [...]

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  • Ida B Wells

    IDA B WELLS Rosa Parks,  “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the [...]

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    Victoria Woodhull

    Victoria Woodhull was an advocate of free love. Not the 1960’s version of Californian beaches [...]

Humanitarians

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    Dolores Ibárruri

    Dolores Ibárruri — known as “La Pasionaria”, one of just three women celebrated on [...]

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