Category: Women Doing Amazing Things
Story of ski-jumping inventor who escaped the Nazis
Tina Ramujkic “The inventor must have a calm head, he must always observe everything,” Florjancic said He was at various times an Olympic athlete, film…
Brighton & Hove Albion 1-3 Tottenham Hotspur: Grace Clinton stunner helps Spurs win
Grace Clinton scored a stunning goal as Tottenham Hotspur came from behind to win at Brighton and Hove Albion in the Women’s Super League. The…
Brighton & Hove Albion 1-0 West Ham United: Aileen Whelan gives Brighton win
Brighton secured back-to-back Women’s Super League wins for the first time with a hard-fought victory over West Ham United. After West Ham keeper Mackenzie Arnold…
England managers Sarina Wiegman and Gareth Southgate pay tribute to ‘inspirational’ Queen
England women won the country’s first major tournament since the 1966 men’s World Cup in July, and Wiegman said: “This summer she [the Queen] took…
Sisterhood FC: Yasmin Abdullahi talks about the formation of a Muslim women’s football team
Some of the girls have said that Sisterhood FC is just more than a football team, it’s a family. If one of them needs support…
The forgotten woman who helped build British Islam
Yahya Birt Almost no pictures exist of Fatima Cates, either before or after her conversion When Francess Elizabeth Murray was born in 1865 into a…
England Women suffer record Twenty20 loss to Australia
England were bowled out for only 96 as they lost to Australia in the women’s Twenty20 tri-series in Mumbai. England chased 199 and 150 in…
How the country became the world’s ‘economic miracle’
Getty Images It took China less than 70 years to emerge from isolation and become one of the world’s greatest economic powers. As the country…
‘I was kidnapped in London and trafficked for sex’
BBC Anna came to London from Romania intending to study, but first she needed to earn some money. She took temporary jobs – waitressing, cleaning,…
Why the Herero people’s special dress is worn with pride in Namibia
Namibia was a German colony for just over a century and in the early 1900s the Herero and the Nama people rose up against the…