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First Women UK: Liverpool Opening Highlights

July 13, 2019 // 0 Comments

Tuesday June 18th 2019: Nearly 200 guests filled Liverpool’s St George’s Hall basement gallery, for our Merseyside launch evening. The 100 portraits, newly installed, gazed down on a very special evening of good cheer, flowing wine, and [...]

Interview with Janice Long

June 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

In 1983, Janice Long became the first woman to present the seminal British TV music show, Top of The Pops. Her arrival marked the end of a 19-year run of the show’s male presenters in a male-dominated industry. She was the only female presenter of [...]

St George’s Hall, Liverpool

June 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

The show will be open to visitors from: 19th June to 27th August 2019, 10.00am – 17:00pm. Last entry 4.30pm Monday to Saturday (closed on Sundays and Bank Holidays) Entry is free The First Women exhibition is part of [...]

Spring round-up: First Women Show at Palace House, Newmarket

June 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

‘I couldn’t be prouder that we are hosting such an inspirational exhibition as 100 First Women Portraits here at Newmarket.’ Chris Garibaldi, Director of Palace House The First Women exhibition’s latest UK tour stop may well be familiar to [...]

Interview with Dr Sarah Buck OBE

May 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

Involved in the design and supervision of a wide range of civil and structural projects over a 40-year career, in 1983 Sarah Buck became the first woman council member of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), an organisation with over [...]

The Palace House Newmarket

February 13, 2019 // 0 Comments

3rd stop in the First Women UK tour… The exhibition opens at the Moller Gallery which is based at the National Heritage Centre for Horse Racing and Sporting Art at the Palace House in Newmarket. The show will be open to visitors from 14th [...]

The First Women Tour

January 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

The First Women Exhibition is currently on tour and will be calling at the following venues: September 15th 2018 – February 2nd 2019 Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire February 14th 2019 – June 10th 2019 Palace House, Newmarket [...]

First Women – what a year!

January 14, 2019 // 0 Comments

A decade ago, I began this project journey, not knowing what would happen but knowing that First Women had its own spirit and that, come what may, I would follow its lead. The images of 100 women: and in their images, their stories, [...]

Interview with Moira Cameron

November 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

Moira Cameron made history in 2007 as the first woman to become a Yeoman Warder in HM Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London. One of 35 ‘Beefeaters’, for the first time since 1485 she broke the run of all-male Yeoman Warders. She talks [...]

Friends and Family celebrate their Firsts!

September 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

Some of the most striking moments during the show where those when friends and family of the Firsts came to acknowledge and celebrate them. Perhaps most poignant of all were those who came to commemorate the wonderful women that had passed away [...]