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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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    Louisa M. Alcott

    Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents! One of the most famous opening lines of any novel was penned by Louisa M Alcott at the start of the novel based upon [...]

Artists

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    Sarah Bernhardt

    Sarah Bernhardt was one of the most famous actresses of the 19th-century French stage. She had a theatrical career that spanned some 60 years. A career which earned her the [...]

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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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    Flora Sandes

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

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    Louise Michel

    The Red Virgin of Montmartre, The Grande Dame of Anarchy, The Red She Wolf what a fantastic way to [...]

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  • Mary Barbour

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

Humanitarians

  • Mary Slessor

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

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