In this blog, which accompanies our International Women’s Day 10-minute talk, Archivist Sophie Denman shines a light on one of the women of St John in honour of Women’s History Month: Annie Brassey, a writer, traveller, and supporter of the St John Ambulance Association She gained her interest in emergency and medical care after being involved in an accident as a child, and s an adult, sailed around the world in her yacht, the ‘Sunbeam’, promoting the Association, writing about her tr...
