Henrietta Heald
Writer and historian with a particular interest in pioneering engineers and author of Magnificent Women and Their Revolutionary Machines.
Henrietta Heald FRSA is a writer and historian with a particular interest in pioneering engineers who have changed the world. Her most recent book is Magnificent Women and Their Revolutionary Machines, a centenary history of the Women’s Engineering Society – which Caroline Haslett helped to found before she became, in 1924, the first director of the Electrical Association for Women. Among Henrietta’s other books is Magician of the North, an acclaimed biography of the Victorian engineer and industrialist Sir William Armstrong (later Lord Armstrong of Cragside), a recipient of the RSA’s Albert Medal.