Hilda Leyel founded Culpeper's as well as changing the way we cook and raise money for charity. Her influence is widely-felt but her name is little-known.
Hilda Leyel (1880-1957)
Author: Lizzie B
Louise Jopling (1843-1933)
Louise Jopling's School of Art expanded her own horizons as well as those of her pupils.
Hilda Hewlett (1864-1943)
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.
Lena Ashwell (1869-1957)
Lena Ashwell's belief in the power of theatre took her to the battlefields of France and the swimming pools of East London.
Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981)
The queen of cut-outs, Lotte Reiniger's influence on film-making can still be felt today
Name games
Did marriage always mean taking your husband's name? Not for some Victorian women..
Amy Bell (1859-1920)
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.
Kate Cranston (1849-1934)
What is the story of Kate Cranston, the woman on the Royal Bank of Scotland's £20 note?
Lucy Duff Gordon (1863-1935)
Lucy Duff Gordon built an international couture business and revolutionised how clothes were marketed and sold
Emma Paterson (1848-1886)
Emma Paterson had a short life but the organisations she started had long ones.
