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Visible WomenThe story of the suffragist who inspired this year’s Women’s March on London
Born in Poland in 1882, Rose Schneiderman is credited with coining the phrase ‘Bread and Roses’.
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BeautyThe true story of Jessie Knight, Britain’s first professional female tattooist
Knight’s gender made her an outsider in the tattoo industry, and her career made her an outsider in a world that saw tattoos as transgressive.
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- Alice Snape
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PeopleMy feminist icon: Caitlin Moran reveals why Mary Shelley inspires her the most
“She wrote a book that invented an entirely new genre – sci-fi”
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ChristmasThis is the amazing story behind our love of Christmas cards
The UK invented the Christmas card – here's how
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- Moya Lothian-McLean
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PeopleMy feminist icon: Deborah Frances-White reveals why Emilia Lanier inspires her the most
“Drink to Emilia and her iconic audacity, wit and triumph over every patriarchal adversity”
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Visible WomenWhy you need to know about Edith Cavell’s remarkable life
It would’ve been her 153rd birthday, and she’s today's Google’s Doodle.
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- Susan Devaney
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Visible WomenThe incredible true story of the captured poet who wrote her way to freedom
Remembering Phyllis Wheatley, the first well-known black female poet in the western world and the first African-American to publish a book
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- Anna-Marie Crowhurst
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Visible WomenWho was Constance Markievicz, the first female MP?
A portrait of the suffragette and Irish revolutionary has just been gifted to the UK parliament. Here’s why she was so important.
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Visible Women10 woman politicians who came ‘first’, from Nancy Astor to Diane Abbott
On the centenary of women being able to stand for parliament, we look back at a timeline of ‘firsts’ for women in politics.
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- Hannah-Rose Yee and Moya Crockett
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Visible WomenThe true story of the WWI footballer and lesbian icon who scored 1,000 goals
Lily Parr was one of many women to play professional football during WWI and the greatest player of her era.
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- Anna-Marie Crowhurst
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Visible WomenHow women’s football emerged from the munitions factories of WWI
Read the untold story of the women who stepped into the mens’ shoes in the factories and on the football pitch, too.
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- Hannah-Rose Yee
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People“How it really feels to reenact the death of my own relatives every Bonfire Night”
"What my family did was wrong," says Hazel Southam. "But the Gunpowder Plot failed. They paid with their lives... and the futures of their families."
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- Hazel Southam
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Visible WomenHow to nominate an inspiring woman from history for her own blue plaque
Just 14% of London’s blue plaques celebrate women – but you could change that.
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Visible WomenThe incredible true story of the first black woman to win gold at the Olympics
Alice Coachman made history at the 1948 Olympic Games – but her hometown’s white mayor still refused to shake her hand.
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- Anna-Marie Crowhurst
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Visible Women“Remembering Altheia Jones-LeCointe, the UK’s forgotten civil rights activist”
Writer Danielle Dash on why she will forever be inspired by the radical and courageous Dr Jones-LeCointe.
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- Danielle Dash
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Visible WomenThis pre-Raphaelite muse was Britain’s most visible Victorian woman of colour
Remembering Fanny Eaton, the Jamaica-born icon held up as an example of perfect beauty.
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- Anna-Marie Crowhurst
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Visible WomenThe 10-year-old girl who rallied for world peace in the face of nuclear war
Remembering the actions and interventions of American peace activist Samantha Smith.
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Visible WomenAda Lovelace’s most inspiring quotes about science, confidence and hard work
9 October is Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating the contributions of women in STEM.
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- Moya Crockett
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Visible Women“Why author Zora Neale Hurston is the patron saint of black women”
The founders of Black Girls Book Club discuss the 20th century writer who introduced them to the concept of ‘black girl magic’.
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- Natalie A Carter and Melissa Cummings-Quarry
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