Pencil drawing of Augusta Hall, courtesy the Lady Llanover Society, www.ladyllanover.org.uk The Welsh woman in her flannel petticoat, dress, apron, shawl and tall black hat is a popular stereotype found on everything from maps, books and postcards to boxes of…
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Women’s History Month: Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923): scientist yet ‘in every way a woman’
On this day, March 23 1899, the scientist Hertha Ayrton read a paper about her electrical researches to the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) who had opened their doors to a woman for the first time. Even today female scientists…