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Statue of pioneering Welsh poet, campaigner and mariner Cranogwen to be unveied in Llangrannog, the third ever statue of a non-fictionalised woman in Wales.

The Monumental Welsh Women (MWW) campaign in partnership with Cerflun Cymunedol Cranogwen Community Monument, a sub-group of the Llangrannog Welfare Committee and Mewn Cymeriad Theatre Company, bring their tour of Cranogwen to Ceredigion this week.

A life-size statue of a local historical figure is to be erected in Llangrannog as part of the national Monumental Welsh Women campaign.

A life-size statue of a local historical figure is to be erected in Llangrannog as part of the national Monumental Welsh Women campaign.

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Hidden Heroines: the untold stories of the women of the Chatham dockyard exhibition to open soon  |  Updated: 12:35, 11 March 2021 A young woman who became the first apprentice at Chatham Dockyard in the 1970s is one of the women featured in a new exhibition due to go on show soon. Hidden Heroines, which is due to go on show at the Historic Dockyard Chatham later this spring, looks at the female workers at the dockyard over 200 years, from the first women of the Spinning Rooms and Sail and Co...

Suffragettski: Maria Czaplicka travelling in a wicker carriage in Siberia, summer 1915  Credit: Pitt Rivers Museum In 1910, Barbara Freire-Marreco, the daughter of a Woking accountant, left England behind and lived and worked among a tribe of Pueblo Indians in New Mexico. Three years later, Katherine Routledge sailed to Easter Island to carry out the first true survey of the land and its people, while also attempting to broker negotiations between increasingly angry islanders and the Englishma...

Frances Larson: Undreamed Shores review - journeys without maps | reviews, news & interviews Frances Larson: Undreamed Shores review - journeys without maps Frances Larson: Undreamed Shores review - journeys without maps How the first female anthropologists found freedom far from home by Boyd TonkinTuesday, 02 March 2021 To the ends of the earth: Frances LarsonGemma Clarke Beatrice Blackwood had lived in a clifftop village between surf and jungle on Bougainville Island, part of the...