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1930 - 1939

1930

The famous Lyons Cafe waitresses are nicknamed "nippies" after 1200 of them serve at a Freemasons' banquet.

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1930

The Women's League of Health and Beauty is founded by Mary Bagot Stack (1883-1934).

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1930

On 5 May Amy Johnson(1903-1941) takes off on her solo flight from England to Australia, the first by a woman.

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1930

The modern dance pioneer Marie Rambert (1888-1982) sets up her Ballet Club.

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1930

The听birth control pioneer, Helena Wright (1887-1982) is one of the founders of the National Birth Control Council, later the Family Planning Association (FPA).

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1931

The theatre manager Lilian Baylis(1874-1937) re-opens Sadler's Wells Theatre as a place to showcase new ballet and opera. As part of this,听Ninette de Valois(1898-2001), founds the Vic-Wells Ballet.

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1932

On 20 May Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly the Atlantic Ocean solo in a 15 hour flight.

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1932

Lilian Wyles is appointed the first woman Chief Inspector in the police force. She joined London's听Metropolitan police听in 1919 and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in 1922.

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1932

In line with the teaching profession and the civil service, the 成人快手 introduces a marriage bar, and no longer employs married women, except under exceptional circumstances.

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1933

Sheila Borrett becomes the first woman radio announcer.

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1933

Billie Holiday (1915-1959) makes her first recording with Benny Goodman.

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1934

Barbara Hepworth(1903-1975) sculpts 'Mother and Child'.

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1935

The British Federation of Business and Professional Women is founded with Lady Astoras its first president.

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1935

Dame Lilian Barker (1874-1955) is appointed Assistant Commissioner of Prisons with responsibility for all female inmates.

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1936

Elizabeth Cowell becomes the first woman television announcer.听

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1936

The artist, Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) becomes a full member of the Royal Academy of Arts. But she has to wait until 1967 for an invitation to the annual dinner, the first time lady members were admitted.

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1936

The geographer, Phyllis Pearsall (1906-1996) publishes her A-Z of London.

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1936

The acclaimed French singer, Edith Piaf (1915-1963), makes her first recording.

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1936

The first Tampax tampons go on sale, invented by Doctor Earle Haas in 1929.

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1937

听The Matrimonial Causes Act extends the grounds on which divorce could be granted to include wilful desertion, cruelty, incurable insanity and habitual drunkenness.

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1938

The Married Women's Association is set up by Edith Summerskill (1901-1980) to promote equality in marriage.

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1938

The Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence (later the Women's Royal Voluntary Service) is set up by Lady Stella Reading(1894-1971).

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1938

The Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), the women's army, is formed.

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1938

The art collector, Peggy Guggenheim (1898 - 1980) opens her Guggenheim-Jeune gallery in London to exhibit avant-garde art.

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1938

opened 100 years after the Victorian heroine saved the lives of 9 shipwrecked passengers and crew in a听courageous lifeboat rescue

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1939

Dorothy Garrod (1892 - 1968) is appointed the first female professor at Oxbridge when she takes over the Chair of Archaeology at Cambridge.

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1939

The outbreak of the听Second World Warhas a huge effect on women's lives.听

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1939

The Women's Land Army is re-launched under the leadership of Lady Gertrude Denman.

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