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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

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    Gertrude Stein

    Gertrude Stein was an American author best known for her modernist writings, extensive art collection and for the literary salon she hosted in 1920s Paris. Gertrude was born, [...]

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 … [...]

Editors Choice

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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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    Esther Lederberg

    With thanks to the Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg memorial website. Esther Lederberg was an American microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics. In common with many [...]

Adventurers

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    Jane Digby

    Jane Digby was an English aristocrat who lived a wild and scandalous life with four husbands, many [...]

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

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    Octavia Hill

    OCTAVIA HILL In these times of food banks, recession and poverty, and with concerns about how to [...]

Politicians

  • Mary Barbour

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

Humanitarians

  • Corrie ten Boom

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

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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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