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Teacher devoted later life to painting, then poetry

Connie Barber, teacher and poet

When teacher Connie Barber's children became more independent, she used her spare time to pursue painting and drawing and then started to write poetry, publishing five books of her poems.

In Passing

In Passing

Dennis Edwards Jr, Olga Hegedus, Kate O'Beirne

In Passing

In Passing

Clifton James, Trish Vradenburg, Lady Hambro

'Uppity' advocate for working women

Mary Owen, feminist and activist.

Mary Owen's 'first life' revolved around family, home, mothers' clubs and church. But a job and contact with the union movement led her to become a tireless advocate for women's rights, health care and workplace equality.

PR man whose vision helped make McDonald’s a success

Before corporate social responsibility and cause-related marketing became fashionable, Al Golin was instrumental in ...

In 1955, a Chicago milkshake machine salesman was so impressed by a California client's assembly line-style restaurant that he bought the franchising rights and opened his own hamburger stand modelled after it in suburban Des Plaines, Illinois.

In Passing

Spain's Defence Minister Carme Chacon reviewing troops while heavily pregnant became a symbol of a new era in Spanish ...

Carme​ Chacón, David Peel, Christopher Morahan

Child migrant overcame early hardships

John Stocker, English child migrant who became a professor of English

John Stocker, a pre-war child migrant from England who became a professor of English, overcame great adversity in his childhood to achieve success.

Character actor who achieved television stardom

Tim Pigott-Smith during a performance of <i>King Charles III</i>, at the Music Box Theatre in New York, 2015.

Tim Pigott-Smith, who has died aged 70, was a seasoned Shakespearean stage actor before achieving television stardom as the sadistic police superintendent turned Army colonel Ronald Merrick in The Jewel in the Crown.