Lilian Lenton
Militant British suffragette
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Partizanke
The contribution of partizanke, or female partisan fighters, to the Yugoslav liberation war was unprecedented in occupied Europe: official statistics of the socialist period report 100,000 women fighting as partisans, and two million participating in various ways to the support of the National Liberation Movement.
Mary Elmes
Irish humanitarian worker ‘righteous among the nations’
Brigid Thornton
Irish public health doctor and first female commissioned officer in the Irish Free State army
Vida Mary Katie MacLean
New Zealand civilian and military nurse, hospital matron
Lily Alexander
British activist, sculptor and painter who travelled internationally
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Indian independence activist
Lucie Aubrac
Frenchwoman Lucie Aubrac was a Sorbonne graduate, a schoolteacher and a committed Communist. Brought up in rural poverty between the wars, she was also a lifelong résistante against social and political oppression, including four years’ militant opposition to the Nazi Occupation of France.
Rozanne Colchester
Intelligence officer who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II
Lumina Sophie
1870: Martinique, French West Indies. An eighteen-year-old pregnant black woman leads a group of her peers in the first worker’s protests since the abolition of slavery in 1848.