On the 9 September 1875, in rough open water Harriet Elphinstone-Dick swam seven miles from Shoreham Harbour to Brighton’s West Pier. She completed the distance in a record making 2 hours and 45 minutes. It was regarded as one of the greatest swimming feats of the time.
American early film actress
Mexican writer and poet
School Secretary at the London School of Economics for 34 years.
Historian Margaret Lambert gained a PhD in international relations at LSE in the 1930s and after the war spent much of her career as an editor-in-chief at the Foreign Office, specialising in contemporary German history.
Despite being prevented from a career as a professional architect as an African-American woman in the early and mid-1900s, Amaza Lee Meredith left a legacy through her work.
British doctor and suffragette during the early 20th century
Women’s rights activist and former Labour Member of Parliament for Northampton North
British economic historian
Despite never holding an academic post Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood was a well known and respected historian and public intellectual.