Music Period: Romantic Location: London, United Kingdom Claim to Fame: composing the “The March of the Women” theme for the suffragette movement, and fighting for the right for women to play in orchestras. Dame Ethel Smyth was...
We don’t really hear much about women’s rights and activism during the First World War in Britain – just that women eventually got the vote. I can’t say for sure why, was it that the government saw a country full of women working just as well...
Fight for what you believe in, and when you think you’ve fought enough, fight some more. It’s tiring, it’s difficult, it’s challenging, but if it’s worth it,...
Suffragettes carrying a banner at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. Photo: REUTERS. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9438965/London-2012-Olympics-anger-as-volunteers-cash-in-on-opening-ceremony.html This year’s...