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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 [...]

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    Claudia Jones

    Claudia Jones was born in Trinidad in 1915, emigrated as a child to America. There she became a political activist and after becoming a communist was deported and came to [...]

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    Georgia O’Keeffe

    Georgia O’Keeffe, a pioneer of modern art, has been recognized as the Mother of American Modernism. She is best known for her large-format paintings of enlarged [...]

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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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    Petra Kelly

    With the Green Party here in the UK making such huge strides, overtaking both UKIP and the LibDems in terms of membership of the party, this is a good time to look at one of [...]

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    Elsie Maud Inglis

    I just happened to have a £50 note in my hand the other day. It was a Clydesdale Bank issue and [...]

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    Elizabeth Fry

    ELIZABETH FRY Known now as the woman who’s removal from banknotes sparked a furore but who [...]

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  • Mary Barbour

    At the height of the First World War, thousands of women, engineering and shipyard workers [...]

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  • Mary Slessor

    Mary Slessor was a Scottish missionary to Nigeria, spreading Christianity, protecting native [...]

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