Photo of three women in front of an information panel at the Natural History Museum, about Mary Anning. They women are all smiling at the camera and look a lot younger than they do now.
Photo of a box containing Fossil Hunter Lottie action figure, a child-proportioned doll. She is wearing practical outdoor clothing. The box is decorated with palaeontology themes and has an image of Mary Anning mentioning that it contains collector cards about her.
Screenshot of a Twitter post from 2015 from Lottie Dolls showing a girl called Lily standing in the Lyme Regis Museum next to a giant ammonite, holding a Lottie Doll. The girl is smiling. The text includes the tag #GirlsDigScience.
Photographic portait of Laura Steele posing as Mary Anning, against a dark green background. She is standing sideways, leaning over towards a spaniel dog. She is wearing a top hat and in her hand is a hammer. Copyright for image: Leonora Saunders; used with permission.
We've long been keen on #MaryAnning (e.g. part-inspiration for Fossil Hunter Lottie action figure, & featured in our #RaisingHorizons exhibition). We know how inspiring and powerful her story as an individual is.
But we're interested in seeing #trowelblazers not as anomalies, but as nodes...
