This week we have celebrated International Women’s Day, and March is Women’s History Month, so is the perfect occasion to celebrate a local trailblazer who broke into the male dominated world of architecture. Elisabeth Whitworth Scott was born in Bournemouth in 1898. She soon realised that the girls in her large family were not receiving the… Read more Elisabeth Whitworth Scott (R.I.B.A. 1898-1972)
On March 8th we celebrate International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. A national holiday in several countries worldwide; including China, Russia, Laos, Ukraine, Afghanistan, and Uganda – International Women’s Day has been celebrated for over a century, with the first official IWD gathering taking place in… Read more Women’s History month – Celebrating women, International Women’s Day
Gertrude Ethel Sharp, the youngest of seven children, was born in 1890. In her early 20s, she studied Applied Art at the Royal College of Art in London, there meeting, and marrying in 1915, John Adams, a potter, designer and technical ceramicist from a famous Staffordshire family. After their marriage, Truda and John moved to… Read more The Mystery of Truda Carter
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