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Mary Anning Rocks in The Sunday Telegraph
22nd May 2022
'Digging Deep'
Anya on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour with Emma Barnett
23rd May 2022
Evie & Anya chat to The Guardian
21st May 2022
'This is what happens when you put a group of women in a room together, they get shit done'
Anya Pearson talking to Tony Livesey on BBC 5 Live
23rd May 2022
Drive Time - Interviews with people at the centre of the days stories.
Evie & Anya Receive Points of Light Award
June 2022
Evie & Anya on ITV News
10th January 2022
Statue of Dorset fossil hunter Mary Anning to be put up in Lyme Regis
Evie in The Guardian
4th January 2022
‘Perfect spot’: statue of fossil hunter Mary Anning nears unveiling
Mary Anning Rocks on Broadcasting House BBC Radio 4
2nd January 2022
Evie in The Sunday Telegraph
2nd January 2022
Schoolgirl gets her statue of fossil-hunter off the ground
New Spot For Mary - BBC News
September 2021
'The new spot sets Mary well and truly in the landscape where she worked.'
Anya Talks to Mariella Frostrup at Times Radio
July 2021
Mary's Maquette Day in Lyme Online
May 2021
Fossil Fans Get First Glimpse Of Proposed Mary Anning Statue
Anya On The Cosmic Shed
May 2021
Mary Anning Rocks is a hugely successful campaign to get a statue of Mary Anning in Lyme Regis.
Evie in Stylist Magazine
May 2021
Why an 11-year-old girl is fighting for a statue of forgotten palaeontologist Mary Anning
Evie in Kookie Magazine
March 2021
Rad Girls, Rock Star......!
Evie in The Daily Express
29th March 2021
Evie talks to journalist Kat Hopps about all things Mary
Mary Anning Rocks in Harpy Magazine
March 2021
Harpy. pop culture, politics & the promotion of women's voices
Evie on BBC Radio 4s Today Programme
25th March 2021
Evie talks to journalist Martha Kearney about all things Mary
Mary Anning Rocks in Positive.News
Jan 2021
Evie in CNN Style - Culture Queue
15th March 2021
Ammonite and 5 more works about women overlooked by history.
Mary Anning Rocks In The Western Daily Press
8th March 2021
From Anning to Wollf: Campaigns for more female statues gains pace.
Mary Anning Rocks in i News
8th March 2021
The Page 3 Profile: Anya Pearson and Evie Swire, Statue Campaigners
Mary Anning Rocks In The Morning Star
8th March 2021
Campaigners fighting to redress nation's statue gender imbalance.
Mary Anning Rocks in Enfeild Independent
8th March 2021
From Virgina Woolf to Mary Clarke: Campaigners fight for more female statues.
Evie In The Week Junior
20th January 2021
School Girls Statue Success
Mary Anning Rocks in the NHM News
21st January 2021
Denise Dutton on BBC Radio 4s Front Row
22nd January 2021
Denise Dutton discusses her commission to sculpt the statue of Mary Anning
Evie & Anya Talk to BBC News Online
21st January 2021
Evie In The Guardian
20th January 2021
Teenage Girl Raises £70,000 for a Statue of Fossil Pioneer
Evie in Dorset Magazine
January 2021
'Mary Anning kick started our obsession with Dinomania over 200 years ago'
Mary Anning Rocks in The Echo
9th January 2021
'Campaign boost for Mary Anning Staue'
Evie & Anya Talk to The Times
6th January 2021
'Memorial for Fossil Pioneer''
Anya Talks to the New Scientist
30th October 2020
Evie in Whiz Pop Bang Magazine
January 2021
'Evie hopes more girls and boys will follow in Mary's footsteps'
Evie in Absolutely Education Magazine
Summer 2020
'Evie Swire's campaign has the support of David Attenborough'
Trustee, Anya Pearson on BBC 5 LIVE
11th June 2020
Anya Pearson talking to Nihal Arthanayake about how celebrating the unsung and margianalised in bronze is a good thing. Not all statues are bad.
Evie & Anya Talk To The Western Daily Press
January 2020
'This incredible woman is the most significant scientist to come out of Dorset let alone lyme Regis' Anya Pearson
Evie & Anya in the Guardian
16th December 2019
'My mum said it was because she was a woman, and it was the Victorian times. And I thought it wasn’t right. Even after all the years since, it wasn’t OK for women to be amazing.”
Evie in OX Magazine
March 2020
Who Run The World? Girls! 10 future leaders set to brighten your 2020.
Evie's Podcast with AJ from The Adelaide Show
4th October 2019
“We started the campaign because there should be a statue for Mary and no one was doing anything about it so we decided that we would do something”
Evie's article in New Moon Girls Magazine
Nov/ Dec 2019
"Have you heard of Mary Anning? Most people haven't, but I want to change that."
Evie in the NHM Wild World Magazine
25th April 2019
"This is a tooth from a plesiosaur collected by Mary on the Beach in Lyme Regis, Dorset. You can see some very fine ridges, which would have helped this marine animal to catch it's prey"
Evie in The Independent
25th May 2019
Evie said she thought Anning “Would be very happy and pleased if she knew she was finally getting a statue in her name. Seeing this project come to life makes me very happy because I didn’t know that an 11-year-old could do something like this”
Evie reporting for BBC Newsround
8th April 2019
"I think that if Mary Anning knew that we were getting a statue for her, she would be very happy and pleased," says Evie.
Evie on National Geographic Kids website.
29th April 2019
Evie wants to see her palaeontology hero recognised
Evie and Anya talk to Steve Harris on BBC Solent Radio.
8th March 2019
"Important people have statues and she is important so she should have one built"
Brandon Lennon from Mary Anning Rocks talks to Beach Combing Magazine
March/ April issue 2019
"Mary Anning was one of the greatest British fossil collectors who has ever lived"
Dorset Echo
August 2018
"We are very good at immortalising men in this country," said Anya. "But when it comes to remembering and celebrating the remarkable things women have done we are, sadly, really bad at it."
Evie on BBC Spotlight News
September 2018
"This is the best place to find fossils, if you look carefully you can sometimes see them in the sand washed out from the mud"
Evie's interview with NHM
December 2018
'Mary wasn't allowed to join in and that is why she has been forgotten. If I had a time machine I would go back and tell them that they are all wrong, and they should listen to Mary because she was amazing and had important things to say.'
Lyme Online
October 2018
A public meeting was held last week to discuss the possibility of erecting a statue of Mary Anning in her hometown Lyme Regis.
Evie In The Week Junior
24th November 2018
"I love that she was a working-class woman in Victorian times who did amazing things. She did many things they thought it was a man's job to do."
Evie in KOOKIE Magazine
April 2018
"You might think that your single voice won't make much diffrence, but lots of small voices and small actions can add up to something big"
Evie talks to Louise Hannan on BBC Radio Solent
November 2018
Evie explaining Crowdfunding: 'It's when lots of people gift small pieces of money to make it into loads of money”
Evie in The Times
November 2018
"People who don’t live in Dorset don’t know who Mary is and I think a statue is a good way to let people know she was an amazing person because you don’t just get anyone random a statue"
Other mentions around the web:
- Evie in The Bridport News Click Here - Feb 2020
- An Evening with Mary Anning Rocks Click Here - Feb 2019
- Sheroes Of History Blog: Click Here - Feb 2019
- Evie's guest blog for Trowel Blazers: Click Here - Nov 2018
- The Conversation: Click Here - Nov 2018
- Evie's guest blog for GirlMuseum: Click Here - Sept 2018
- Council gives backing for satue Click Here Aug 2018
We want to acknowledge and remember Mary in a visual way because we want to give her a tangible work of art that will not only give her back a physical presence in her Lyme Regis but will equally give the people of Lyme and the thousands of tourists that come to visit every year a focal point of remembrance and respect.
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