Ada Armytage
Ada’s photographs and her sisters’ diaries, letters and journals make up the Armytage family archive, which preserves the significant moment in history.
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Irena Sawicka
Irena Scheur-Sawicka was a Polish archaeologist, ethnographer, and educational and communist activist who joined joined the Polish Workers’ Party during World War II.
Irena Iłłakowicz
Irena Morzycka-Iłłakowicz was a intelligence agent and second lieutenant of Poland’s National Armed Forces, which fought against Nazi Germany and communist partisans during World War II.
Irene Morales Infante
Irene Morales Infante was a Chilean soldier who served in the War of the Pacific (1879-1884) between Chile, Peru and Bolivia.
Amy Johnson
Amy Johnson CBE was a pioneering English aviator, and the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia over 19.5 days in May 1930.
Dr Florence Stoney
Irish medical doctor who was the first female radiologist in the United Kingdom
Jhalkaribai
Jhalkaribai was a soldier who served in the Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi’s women’s army and eventually rose to a position of a prominent advisor to the queen herself, including analysing and strategising battle tactics.
Sybil Ludington
Sybil Ludington was an American Revolutionary War heroine.
Mary Hallaren
Mary Agnes Hallaren was an American soldier and the third director of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) at the time when it became a part of the United States Army.
Solør shield-maiden
As befitting a Viking warrior, she was buried with a two-edged sword, an axe, a spear, five arrowheads, a shield, the skeleton of a horse with bridle and other tools.