Special edition First Women:Live! Zoom with Suzi Quatro
We are delighted to announce a very special Christmas guest for our Next First Women:Live! Zoom event Date: DECEMBER 17TH. Time: 18.30-19.30 GMT. For this third instalment [...]
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First Woman Interview with Monique Simmonds
Monique Simmonds was the First Woman to become Deputy Director of Science at Kew Gardens. She researches the traditional and economic uses of plants and their potential for [...]
First Women:Live! – Goes Live!
On September 22nd at 6.30pm we took the plunge. Myself and Deborah (my editorial director and ‘write’-hand woman) had been talking about how to keep the energy of [...]
First Women Interview with Angela Rippon
Television journalist, news reader and presenter, in 1975 Angela Rippon became the first woman to regularly read the national news on the BBC – preceded by two decades [...]
Five Reasons Why Outside is the Best Lockdown Medicine
The First Woman to swim from Cornwall to the Isles of Scilly: who better to share their natural prescription for happiness in these challenging times than ocean swimmer and [...]
Remembering Dame Clare Marx: 1954 – 2022
Work experience aged 16, with the ‘surgeon who lived round the corner’ led to falling in love with surgery and eventually growing up to become the First Woman President [...]
Interview with Charlotte Budd
First run in 1877, The Grand National is one of the most well-known horse races in the world. In 1977, a 21-year-old named Charlotte Budd became the first woman in 100 years [...]
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 [...]
Brighton – A Fabulous First Month
Deep in the Royal Pavilion Gardens, amongst the exotic, architectural creations of George the Fourth, the 100 Firsts are now happily housed in Brighton’s Museum and Art [...]
Interview with Jocelyn Burton
Interview Originally published Sep 14, 2018 Renowned British silver and goldsmith, Jocelyn Burton was the first woman to be made a freeman of the worshipful company of [...]