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What's new: February 2021
This month’s update adds ten new articles on lives connected with some of the regions of the British Isles. Read the introduction here.
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Campbell [née Johnson], Rachel Elizabeth [Betty] (1934-2017)
Born in Cardiff, where she trained as a teacher and taught in a primary school in Butetown, Rachel Elizabeth [Betty] Campbell became the first Black headteacher in Wales and one of the first in the UK.
