Women of the Foreign Office

Seemingly starting with the Suffragettes in the early twentieth century, the advancement of women's rights in the UK has been nonstop in the succeeding decades. Proponents of the cause have aimed for equality across all sectors: personal and civil rights, employment rights, equal pay - and yet Britain's first official female ambassador was not appointed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office until 1976. Here Elizabeth and Richard Warburton cast a detailed eye over the advancement of women as dip