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Miriam Rothschild was a leading authority on fleas.She studied the life cycles of fleas & 1st to determine the jumping mechanism. Her book on parasitism (Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos) is a must & she co-Catalogued her fathers collection

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Happy 🎉As part of we're celebrating the work of artist Millie Frood (1900-1988). She was heavily involved with the New Scottish Group, an influential group of independent artists based in 🎨 https://t.co/6UfntRKRml

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Celebrating we looked at the artists behind the Bishops of Worcester portraits. June Mendoza was the first woman to paint an official BoW portrait in 1970s & since then all have been by female artists.

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Evelyn De Morgan, one of the most successful artists of her time, spent her early years at Cannon Hall

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We can't wait for you to see our new exhibition which opens on Saturday! Featuring artwork by


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What’s involved in setting up an art exhibition? To kick off Rebecca Rossiter of outlines her role in preparing for ‘Henry Lamb: Out of the Shadows’.

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The Women's Voluntary Service was formed in 1938. By 1943 over 1 million volunteer women were involved in the war effort on the Home Front. This archive photo shows some of the Salvage Collectors in the WVS, in Hunstanton High Street, 1942.

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Kathleen Drew-Baker, Mother of the Sea. Specimens at Manchester Museum
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illustration: https://t.co/JyzOUbL1yN

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Bertha Mason was a prominent businesswoman in during the early 1900s. Like many women in history, we know more about the male members of her family. Thanks to we have been able to uncover more about Bertha's life.

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Today we celebrate as part of who better than the amazing couple and who lived loved and worked together for more than 40 years creating a body of extraordinary work which we are proud to care for.

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"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment."
Georgia O'Keefe

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Raised in Margaret Fountaine led a life of science & exploration in the late 1800s, working as a lepidopterist, collecting +20,000 butterfly specimens across 60 countries. Her collection is held here & her sketchbooks at

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First post for Edith Pargeter (better known as Ellis Peters, author of the Cadfael Mysteries). Was a Teleprinter PO at WA and wrote her book "She Goes to War" about her experiences.

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Diana Ruth Wilson's incredible series of 200 watercolours record unusual plants that we have now lost or are losing in the local area

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Hope Macpherson was Australia's first female curator, and part of the first group of female scientists allowed to travel to Antarctica

Here she is working on 's shell collections c.1946

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