women in history

Hon. Assistant Section Officer Noor Inayat Khan (code name Madeleine), George Cross, MiD, Croix de Guerre avec Etoile de Vermeil. Noor Inayat Khan served as a wireless operator with F Section, Special Operations Executive. Black and white image, with Noor smiling, facing the camera, in her unifrom.

Noor Inayat Khan – A British Spy – Fantastic Women Series

The first female wireless operator to be sent from the UK into occupied France to help the French Resistance during World War II.

Image created by Craiyon of a Queen sitting on a horse

Podcast Episode 88 l Mercian Queen Cynethryth

This Fantastic Women Series podcast is about Cynethryth, who was Queen of Mercia and exerted power and influence along with her husband King Offa.