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MARKING International Women’s Day 2021, curators from Museums & Galleries Edinburgh have taken the opportunity to shine a spotlight on a selection of fascinating women from Edinburgh’s past. Running from March 8-12, the series profiles five pioneering women whose lives are reflected in the city’s history collections. They include Ella Morrison Millar, Edinburgh’s first female town councillor; Nannie (Agnes Henderson) Brown, a prominent suffragist; Lileen Hardy, who opened the St Saviour’s Child Garden in the Canongate; Helen Monro Turner, who founded the studio glass department at Edinburgh College of Art and Ena Thomson, who served as an air raid warden in the Second World War.