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Dame Margaret Weston (1926-2021)

Dame Margaret Weston who was instrumental in the setting up of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in 1983 and was a pioneer for women in a male-dominated world as the UK's first female director of a national museum, has died aged 94 years.

See:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jan/18/dame-margaret-westo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Weston 

https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/happy-birthday-to-dame-margaret-w...

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