Doctor, suffragist and formidable organiser, Elsie Inglis refused to accept the limits placed upon women. When Britain rejected her offer of an all-female medical unit during the First World War, she simply took her hospitals elsewhere – and changed thousands of lives.
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Lilian Bland
In 1910, when aviation was still in its infancy, Lilian Bland decided she could build an aeroplane herself. Armed with determination, ingenuity, a Jameson’s whisky bottle and her aunt’s ear trumpet, she built the Mayfly – and then climbed aboard and flew it.
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Eglantyne Jebb
Eglantyne Jebb founded Save the Children, was arrested for campaigning for starving enemy children, and helped establish the revolutionary idea that children had rights of their own. One remarkable Shropshire woman whose legacy changed millions of lives.
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The Seventh Chair – Kirst D’Raven
Six women. Seven chairs. One invitation that makes no sense. Around a dinner table where time has apparently stopped, Florence Nightingale, Beatrix Potter, Maria Dickin, Lilian Bland, Elsie Inglis and Eglantyne Jebb discover they have rather more in common than history remembers. But one place remains empty. And perhaps it was never meant for them.
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Florence Nightingale
Forget the gentle Lady with the Lamp. Florence Nightingale was a statistician, political operator and relentless reformer who used evidence to expose preventable deaths and force the British establishment to change.
