Audrey Richards
British anthropologist whose honours included a CBE for her work in Uganda, election to the British Academy, and the Presidency of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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Beatrice Hewart
In 1898, she published The Wages of London Vestry Employees in the Economic Journal.
Edith Morley
Edith Morley was a scholar in English literature, the first woman appointed to a Chair in a British university level institution
Maureen Colquhoun
Women’s rights activist and former Labour Member of Parliament for Northampton North
Ragnhild Hatton
For 32 years Ragnhild Hatton was a member of the International History Department at London School of Economics as a historian and teacher of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Clara Collet
Collet was an educational trailblazer from her earliest days having attended the North London Collegiate School for Girls, an influential and important school which treated girls’ education seriously and taught topics usually only reserved for boys.
Gertude Tuckwell
The first woman to appear in the list of teachers in the London School of Economics Calendar is Gertrude Tuckwell in the School’s second year.
Eileen Power
British economic historian
Julia Frankau
Irish art historian and novelist
Veronica Wedgwood
Despite never holding an academic post Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood was a well known and respected historian and public intellectual.