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Brigid Thornton

Irish public health doctor and first female commissioned officer in the Irish Free State army

Vida Mary Katie MacLean

New Zealand civilian and military nurse, hospital matron

Lily Alexander

British activist, sculptor and painter who travelled internationally

Frenchwoman Lucie Aubrac was a Sorbonne graduate, a schoolteacher and a committed Communist. Brought up in rural poverty between the wars, she was also a lifelong résistante against social and political oppression, including four years’ militant opposition to the Nazi Occupation of France.

Rozanne Colchester

Intelligence officer who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II

Lumina Sophie

1870: Martinique, French West Indies. An eighteen-year-old pregnant black woman leads a group of her peers in the first worker’s protests since the abolition of slavery in 1848.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Indian independence activist

Hazel Rennie

Peace and human rights activist

Telesilla

Ancient Greek lyric poet from the fifth century BCE

Tembandumba

Ruler of the Jaga of what is now Angola.