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Month: May 2021

Hilda Hewlett (1864-1943)

27 May, 202116 November, 2021 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Hilda Hewlett was the first woman in Britain to get her pilot's licence but it is for making planes as well as flying them that she should be known.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged aviation, First World War, Women's Engineering Society

Lena Ashwell (1869-1957)

25 May, 202126 August, 2021 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Lena Ashwell's belief in the power of theatre took her to the battlefields of France and the swimming pools of East London.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged First World War, married women, suffragist, theatre, Women's Tax Resistance League

Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981)

9 May, 20219 May, 2021 Lizzie BLeave a comment

The queen of cut-outs, Lotte Reiniger's influence on film-making can still be felt today

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged advertising, film, tv

Name games

6 May, 202126 August, 2021 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Did marriage always mean taking your husband's name? Not for some Victorian women..

Posted in Women in SocietyTagged married women

Amy Bell (1859-1920)

1 May, 202129 August, 2021 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Women were only allowed onto the floor of the London Stock Exchange in 1973, nearly 90 years after Amy Bell started work as a stockbroker.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged F.D. Maurice, Margaret Bateson, stockbroking, suffragist

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