HISTORIANS have warned that supplies of previously unknown women who can be held up as inspirational figures are about to be exhausted.

Archivists have spent the last decade strip-mining the past for inspirational women, inspirational black women, inspirational brown women, inspirational trans women and inspirational women who can plausibly be described as ‘neurospicy’.

Professor Mary Fisher said: “Let me illustrate my mindset: I found records of a 17th century female abortionist who only killed 40 per cent of her patients and said ‘Yay!’

“That’s what we’re reduced to. Post-Mary Seacole there’s been a gold rush. Demand for historical women with achievements we approve of is unrelenting. I mean if you want nuns who converted thousands to Catholicism I’ve got plenty, but they’re not in vo

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