Interview with Kathryn Sargent
From a very young age, I wondered – ‘what is it about a suit?’ For me, it is the mystery of it. Of how it can completely transform a person. I wanted to know how to [...]
100 Women
100 First Women Portraits in Brighton – Now a Virtual Tour
First Women Virtual Tour: • Introduction to the online exhibition • Exhibition tour (images, audio, biographies) • 10 Highlights and Audio Descriptions [...]
Interview with Dame Jil Matheson
In 2011, over 200 years since its inception, Statistician Dame Jil Matheson became the first woman to have ever run the decennial population census. Jil joined the Office for [...]
We love Brighton and Brighton loves us
In the first three weeks of opening, we had over 5,000 visitors to the Brighton First Women show and over 2000 people crossed the Museum and Art Gallery’s threshold on [...]
Interview with Carolynn Sells
Carolynn was 12 years old when she started riding bikes. Just over two decades later she became the first (and, to date, only) woman to win a solo Motorcycle race on the [...]
First Women UK: Liverpool Opening Highlights
Photos by John O’Grady and Gareth Jones Tuesday June 18th 2019: Nearly 200 guests filled Liverpool’s St George’s Hall basement gallery, for our Merseyside launch [...]
The First Women Tour
The First Women Exhibition tour is scheduled to show at the following venues. Please check each venue’s homepage and our website for updates and date amendments: Upcoming [...]
Interview with Moira Cameron
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 [...]
Interview with Lieutenant Commander Becky Frater RN
Self-confessed hockey obsessive – and an ex-England hockey player herself – Lieutenant Commander Becky Frater RN was the First Woman female member and lead [...]
Interview with Dame Inga Beale
Businesswoman Dame Inga Beale was the first woman to be made CEO of insurance giant Lloyds of London where, for over 320 years men have been at the helm. First Women asks [...]