Lucy Philip Mair
Lucy Philip Mair was a well-known anthropologist; she is far less known for her significant contributions to the history of the discipline of International Relations.
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Margaret Lambert
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.
Susan Strange
Susan Strange held the Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at the London School of Economics 1978-88 and was a world renowned leader of the field.
Ella Young
Irish poet, republican, and mystic
Eslanda Robeson
A staunch opponent of injustice, Eslanda found her intellectual community and political point of view in New York, where she was located in history on the eve of the Harlem Renaissance and the end of the Bolshevik revolution.
Deolinda Rodrigues Francisco de Almeida
Angola’s “Mother of the Revolution”, Deolinda Rodrigues Francisco de Almeida had many roles throughout her short life: nationalist, militant, writer, poet and translator, teacher and radio host.
Francisca Fernández-Hall
Guatemalan engineer and diplomat Francisca Fernández-Hall Zúñiga was the first woman to graduate from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, the first woman to earn an engineering degree in Central America, the first woman to be accepted and attend the Instituto Militar de Engenharia of Brazil, and Guatemala’s first female ambassador.
Doña Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez
A member of the Mexican elite who fought for independence.
Annie Kenney
British suffragist
Anne Page
Anne Barbara Page, who graduated from the London School of Economics in 1912 with a First Class Honours degree in Economics and went on to work as private secretary for Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland, a Conservative Party Chairman and LSE Chair of Governors from 1916-1935.