Quick dash into London, through Soho, Chinatown, down to Trafalgar Square and into the National Portrait Gallery. We took a look around the contemporary portraits. The photographed artwork celebrates 130 women from the 1st century to the present day, who have made significant contributions to British history and culture, including 26 lesser known, but nonetheless major contributors. The artwork also holds a silhouetted figure representing the many, many, many women who remain unrecognised, uncelebrated, unknown, and who have shaped, and continue to shape history. The artwork illustrates Eleanor Rathbone, someone who changed the future for millions upon millions of families and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman to be formally trained in medicine, and, just 10 years after qualifying, established a women’s hospital to train women in medicine. 

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