Figures

Laura Ashley

Textile and fashion designer

Rose Mary Crawshay

Suffragist, educationist and philanthropist

Martyr Tydfil

The woman who gave our town its name

Margaret (Megan) Watts Hughes

Pioneer of visual sound and creator of the Voice Figures

Ursula Masson

Academic, historian and founder of Women’s Archive Wales

Lucy Thomas

Mother of Coal

Margaret Stewart Taylor

Borough Librarian, Curator of Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery, and Local Historian

Marion Jones

A Trade Union Shop Steward at Hoovers and a Women's Rights Campaigner

Lady Charlotte Guest

Translator of the Mabinogion, Industrialist, Philanthropist, and Renowned Collector of Art and Porcelain

Merryl Wyn Davies

A Pioneering Writer and Thinker