Mary Perolz
Irish republican and trade unionist
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Dr Maud McKee
Irish medical doctor, activist and psychotherapist
Margaret Skinnider
Irish republican, teacher, and trade unionist
Elaine Feldman
Irish public figure and founder of a secondary school for the Jewish community
Nuala Fennell
Irish feminist and politician
Evelyn Owens
Irish trade unionist and women’s rights advocate
Effie Cardale
1900s welfare worker in Christchurch, New Zealand
Nora Sipos
Czech who risked her life to help Jews during WWII and helped refugees afterward
Charlotte Marsh
One of the first suffragettes to go on hunger strike, she was one of the most effective, professional organisers of the Women’s Social and Political Union working at various moments in Yorkshire (1909), Oxford (1910), Portsmouth and Southampton (1911-12).
Dagmar Wilson
American anti-nuclear testing activist, artist, and illustrator of children’s books