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7 January 2020

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Before we have more of Alma Buscher’s incredible designs, here she is aged 24, the year she designed yesterday’s ship. Four years later she was ‘a full time wife and mother’. (And twenty years later, at a time when some women return to their careers after their children are grown up, she was killed in an Allied bombing raid in the war. Sobering.)

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