English Heritage are commemorating some of the most pioneering women with 6 blue plaques in London
April 07, 2020 - 07:44 BST Carla Challis International Women's Day was a month ago on 8 March, but celebrating amazing women never stops – and the latest scheme to honour some of our most brilliant women is the English Heritage's Blue Plaques for Women 2020 scheme. Suffragettes, spies and groundbreaking sculptors are just some of the pioneers chosen to be commemorated in London.
Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan – Notable for her work during the First World War as one of the leading figures in the first women's corps in the British military, Dame Helen is also renowned for her academic work as a botanist. Her blue plaque hangs on the building in Bedford Avenue, Bloomsbury, where she lived for 50 years.
Barbara Hepworth – Born in 1903, Barbara Hepworth was a groundbreaking sculptor with works held in the collections of major art institutions across the world, including the Tate and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.Her plaque will mark the North London address where she created one of her earliest sculptures, and where she held her first ever exhibition.
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies - The NUWSS was the largest of any women's suffrage campaigning organisation, with a membership of over 50,000 women.
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