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Barbara Castle
Barbara Castle was the youngest of three children, born and brought up in Yorkshire. Barbara grew up in a politically active and socially aware home, and joined the Labour [...]

Writers

  • Aphra Behn

    Aphra Behn by Mary Beale “All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn which is, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster [...]

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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    Sally Ride

    In 1983, astronaut and astrophysicist Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, and still remains the youngest American astronaut to travel to space, when she took [...]

Adventurers

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    Flora Sandes

    Flora Sandes was the only British woman officially to serve as a soldier in World War I. Initially [...]

Suffragists

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    Fanny Parker

    Image of Suffragette; Not Fanny Parker Frances “Fanny” Parker was a British suffragette who became a prominent militant. She was born and brought up in New [...]

Social reformers

  • Mary Barbour

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

Politicians

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    Barbara Castle

    Barbara Castle was the youngest of three children, born and brought up in Yorkshire. Barbara grew [...]

Humanitarians

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    St Hilda

    When I think of St Hilda, which admittedly isn’t often, it is as the Oxford College which [...]

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Philosphers

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    Simone Weil

    Simone Weil was a French philosopher, mystic and political activist. Her writing emphasized sacrifice and martyrdom through an ascetic lifestyle, a lifestyle which led to her [...]

Musicians

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    Francesca Caccini

    Francesca Caccini was an Italian Composer, singer, lute player, poet, and teacher of the early Baroque era. She was also known by the nickname “La Cecchina” The [...]

Athletes

  • Irena Szewinska

    When I was growing up in the 1970’s Irena Szewinska was making history. She was setting records in athletics which, had she been a man, we would still be lauding today. [...]

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