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Where are all the Women?
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Scan of a black and white illustration of a woman sitting at a desk. She has on a white cap and has a big, thick book on the table in front of her Add to board
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Elizabeth (Betty) Beecroft

Elizabeth or ‘Betty’ Beecroft made her mark as that rare thing, an eighteenth-century woman in sole charge of an industrial enterprise - Kirkstall Forge in Leeds.

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