Rahima Moosa
One of four South African women who mobilised support and organised the huge protest that was to take place on August the 9th 1956 at the Union Buildings, the seat of the apartheid government.
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Fredegonde
Merovingian queen
Moya Llewelyn Davies
Irish political activist
Fulvia
Ancient Roman patrician woman who marshalled Antony’s legions to bring reinforcements to her brother-in-law, besieged by Octavian’s troops in Umbria
Gay Firth
Irish author, journalist and political campaigner
Flora McMillan Forde
New Zealand political activist, feminist, welfare worker
Mary Barbour
Social reformer, WW1 Rent Strike leader, founding member of the Women’s Peace Crusade in Scotland and a pioneering woman councillor in 1920s Glasgow.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Indian independence activist
Dr Ada English
Irish doctor, academic and nationalist
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
The world’s first woman Prime Minister, Sirimivo Bandaranaike, was elected in Sri Lanka in 1960s.