Entomologists Anonymous by Frances M Lynch by electric voice theatre

"Entomologists Anonymous" for mixed acapella voices by Frances M Lynch is sung by the Voices for the Future Virtual Choir and Young Singers Programme.
The singers chant the names of 6 important UK women entomologists repeating them until they can no longer be forgotten!:

Miriam Rothschild https://minervascientifica.co.uk/miriam-rothschild/ achieved much in her long life, using her great wealth for the benefit of others - She was a campaigner for gay rights, pioneered the restoration of wildflower meadows and promoted the use of art therapy to treat mental health conditions. The study of fleas and of the toxins - the pyrazines - in plants being used by insects to deter predators were her main fields of study. She also worked with Alan Turing to break the enigma code at Bletchley Park during WW11.

When Eva Crane was getting married in 1942, one of her wedding presents was a bee hive. Her curiosity about how bees functioned led to her becoming a world authority on these important pollinators, whose carefully detailed work, and ambition to connect researchers in apiculture around the world still resonates to this day.

Eleanor Ormerod is a formidable Victorian figure who won many accolades worldwide for her work on insects which destroy crops, and ways to prevent them from doing so! She wrote papers, and even lectured for a time at the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester. She began life on a huge estate in Gloucestershire where she grasped the many opportunities this afforded for studying both insects and agriculture.

Margaret Rae MacKay started work as an entomological artist in London but the second world war saw her return to Canada to take up work for the government there as a forest entomologist – travelling throughout North America, particularly studying moths. Her extensive scientific publications included her fantastic illustrations

Life as a governess was not the most obvious start in life for a woman who would become an extraordinary and prolific solo explorer and collector of entomological specimens in the South Pacific. But Lucy Evelyn Cheeseman rarely seemed to do anything obvious! Born in Kent in 1882, she wanted to be a vet but women weren’t allowed to study at the Royal Veterinary College so she learned some German & French, worked for the admiralty during WW1 and then discovered entomology. Her huge collection, sketches and notes are now at the Natural History Museum.

Erica McAlister is the Curator of Diptera at the Natural History Museum. Her love of insects – particularly flies – is infectious. She is a prolific broadcaster and author as well as a scientist – she has produced a particularly wonderful book on flies that will persuade you that they are in fact gorgeous creatures! She worked with electric voice theatre on the original Entomologists Anonymous Project in Bournemouth. https://www.electricvoicetheatre.co.uk/