Category: Women Doing Amazing Things
Star player visits her Sussex grassroots club
George Carden/BBC Jess Breach, from Chichester, was part of the successful England Six Nations squad An England rugby star has returned to visit the grassroots…
Fidel Castro supports brother Raul at Cuba Congress
When it came to the election of the new Communist Party leadership, the message was mixed. As the name of each member of the newly…
Ex-MP Natalie McGarry says she was overwhelmed by workload
Getty Images Natalie McGarry was involved with the Women for Independence group while also running for election in 2015 Former MP Natalie McGarry has told…
The World War Two army that didn’t exist
Getty Images Dummy equipment such as tanks were used to create invasion threats from Britain into other parts of Western Europe (Credit: Getty Images) Eighty…
Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s ‘new broom’ president in profile
More than 15 million Nigerians chose Muhammadu Buhari as their president in 2019, close to the number that elected him in 2015, indicating that four…
In search of Miami’s Cuban sandwich
Ocean drive, Miami beach Despite the sandwich’s culinary identity being inextricably tied to Miami, a deep dive into its history reveals a surprising twist. It…
Unearthing the legacy of Harvard’s female ‘computers’
Alex Newman/PRI Curator Lindsay Smith Zrull places a glass plate photograph of a section of the sky onto a lightbox In a cramped Harvard University…
‘I often wonder why I lived while others died’
BBC Donald Howkins prepared vehicles and ammunition for a beach landing For the past two years, the BBC has been gathering the memories of people…
How should we manage nuclear energy?
Nuclear The promise of the 1950s, that nuclear energy would supply practically all of our energy, has faded. What’s the future of the expensive, powerful,…
Lithuania urges people to throw away Chinese phones
Getty Images The Xiaomi 10T Pro was found to have censorship capabilities, the report said Consumers should throw away their Chinese phones and avoid buying…