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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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    Gertrude Jekyll

    Gertrude Jekyll was born in Mayfair, the fifth of seven children. Her father was a Captain in the Grenadier Guards. Her younger brother was a friend of Robert Louis [...]

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    Hannah Höch

    Hannah with Til Brugman Hannah Hoch, a fate not unknown to women artists where even if artists themselves are more often acknowledged as mere muses, models and tea-makers, [...]

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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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    Wangari Maathai

    Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace. Wangari like so many of the [...]

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  • Harriet Taylor Mill

    Harriet Taylor Mill suffers the fate of many women, that of being overlooked in favour of her [...]

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    Barbara Castle

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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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