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Georgia O’Keeffe | The Mother of American Modernism
Georgia O’Keeffe was one of America’s first modernist painters, best known for her large paintings of flowers in close-up, New…
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Yayoi Kusama | International Artist and Designer
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist, renowned the world over for her artistic installations, sculptures, and paintings. She has lived…
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Leonora Carrington | Fantastical Surrealist Artist
Leonora Carrington was a British-born Mexican artist, who painted in the surrealist style. Her works have a mystic quality, inspired…
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5 Fabulous 19th Century Classics
Despite the prevailing notions of gender during the 19th century, some of our best loved classics were written by some…
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Marie Curie | Double Nobel Prize Winning Scientist
Marie Curie's work led to some of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, such as the development of radiotherapy…
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Mary Wollstonecraft | Proto-feminist, Writer & Philosopher
Mary Wollstonecraft was a philosopher, writer and advocate of women's rights. She lived and wrote during the 18th century. She…
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Margaret Hamilton | The Code That Got Us To The Moon
Margaret Hamilton is an American computer scientist and software engineer. She led the team who developed the software for the…
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Ada Lovelace | Pioneering Computer Programmer
Ada Lovelace wrote the worlds first complex computer program. She was the first to see the potential of Charles Babbage’s…
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Elizabeth Wilbraham | Mystery 17th Century Architect
Lady Elizabeth Wilbraham is traditionally acknowledged as an important architectural patron of the 17th century, but she is now thought…
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Nettie Stevens | Discovery of Sex Chromosomes
Nettie Stevens was an American Scientist working in the early part of the 20th century. She was interested in chromosomes…
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Agnodice | The Heroic Physician From Athens
Agnodice is one of the first female doctors known to history, though, it’s unclear if she was a real Greek…
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Frida Kahlo | Artist and Icon
Frida Kahlo is a celebrated artist, who has become a political and cultural icon. She is best known for her…
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Boudica | The Warrior Queen
Boudica was a Celtic queen who led a rebellion against the Romans occupying Britain in 60-61 AD. The Romans attacked…
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Famous Artists | From Kahlo to Kauffman
An introduction to some of the best artists from the baroque, all the way up to the postmodern period. Take…
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Lady Nancy Astor | First Woman in the House of Commons
Lady Nancy Astor was the first women to take her seat in parliament. She was elected MP for Plymouth Sutton…
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Jane Austen | Fabulous 19th Century Novelist
One of the greatest British novelists, Jane Austen lived and wrote in the 18th and 19th century, completing six novels…
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Mary Anning | Pioneering Fossil Hunter
Mary Anning was a famous fossil hunter and a pioneering palaeontologist. She discovered fossilised sea creatures from the time of…