Nora Sipos
Czech who risked her life to help Jews during WWII and helped refugees afterward
Czech who risked her life to help Jews during WWII and helped refugees afterward
American anti-nuclear testing activist, artist, and illustrator of children’s books
Irish social worker, clown, and magician
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).
Irish barrister and civil rights activist
With its attacks, the RZ tried to encourage women and girls to form gangs to fight back against the many forms of violence and abuse that they experienced in their everyday lives.
Kenyan environmental activist
Scottish novelist whose sentimental fiction spoke to the nostalgia of a Scottish diaspora, evoking a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.
Writer, ‘political agitator’ and Communist
Militant British suffragette