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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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    Rumer Godden

    Introduction: When I first started to read I read voraciously. I took up residence in the local library and sat on my bedroom windowsill so that I could read into the early [...]

Artists

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    Mary Beale

    Mary Beale was a prolific, successful portrait painter but her name is little known outside experts in 17th Century English painting. As such, Mary is perfect for celebration [...]

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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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    Maria Winkelmann

    Maria Winkelmann was one of the most famous of the early female astronomers in Germany . Born in 1670, she was educated by her father,  who believed that she deserved an [...]

Adventurers

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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 [...]

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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    Sophia Duleep Singh

    Sophia Duleep Singh; Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary! She was one of the most important [...]

Politicians

  • Margaret Bondfield

    Margaret Bondfield was a Labour politician, trades unionist and women’s rights activist who [...]

Humanitarians

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    Dolores Ibárruri

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

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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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