In 1928, British author Virginia Woolf asked what women who knew what they wanted—to become creative artists—would need to pursue that goal. Her answer became the title of her celebrated 1929 book “A ...

Marigold “Margot” McNeely, who warned British cities of German air attacks during World War II, died Sept. 12 in her Covington home. She was 98. For 30 years after the war, the Britain-born McNeely ...

Unrecorded in the history books and sworn to silence by the Official Secrets Act, dozens of UK women whose code-breaking work helped crack Nazi messages and shorten World War Two are now the focus of ...

Jackie Moggridge was 18 when she arrived in England with dreams of becoming an airline pilot. In 1938 there were no aeronautical colleges in South Africa so she came to Witney, Oxfordshire, where she ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Over the course of World War II, many women stepped out ...