"Around the year 200, two Roman women, Ailia Isidora and Ailia Olympias, walked through the impressive temple gates at Medamound, a temple complex outside of Luxor, Egypt. Their arms were heavy with an offering to the goddess Leto. They had just returned from a successful voyage across the Red Sea and were coming to thank their patroness. In the recorded dedication, we hear their voices echo back to us millennia later. They described themselves as “distinguished matrons, Red Sea ship owners and merchants.”

Ailia Isidora and Ailia Olympias weren’t the only female merchants in antiquity, says Carrie Atkins, an archaeology professor at the University of Toronto who has uncovered more than 20 references to female merchants in the early centuries of the Roman Republic. While some of these women were passive shipowners, others were heavily involved in the financing, managing, and perhaps even sailing of these merchant vessels."

Margaret( Russell ) McIver was born in Ayrshire, or Glasgow, depending on what source you read on May 9th 1879 to a French polisher and policeman.

“Maggie” went on to found the famous Barras in Glasgow.

Maggie eventually moved to the Bridgeton area of Glasgow as as a young girl, during the time of the industrial expansion of the city. Mass immigration from the likes of the Scottish Highlands and Ireland created a population of lower working class who needed ways to make a living.

The Bridgegate or Briggait was synonymous with the rag and second-hand clothes trade at that time. The Glaswegian word ‘barras’ describes the handcarts which the traders used to hawk their wares.

By the age of 12, Maggie had her first taste of business looking after a family friend’s fruit barrow in Parkhead, from there, she was inspired to open a small fruit shop in Bridgeton and met her future husband and business partner, James McIver, at the local fruit market.

With the beginning of World War One, there was an increase in the volume of traffic on the city thoroughfares and renewed attempts to discourage street trading. After witnessing barrow traders being booked by police, Maggie decided to provide a place for trading to continue.

The McIvers organised a Saturday market on their land, now known as the Barras, and before long were attracting 300 barrows. Maggie rented out many of her stalls to women. The original market was sheltered in 1926 because Maggie was concerned for the welfare of the hawkers in bad weather.

James McIver died of malaria, which he had contracted during the war, leaving Maggie to raise nine children and run the business on her own at the age of 49.

As legend has it, the businesswoman decided to open the Barrowland Ballroom after the usual venue for her hawkers Christmas dance and meal was fully booked. The ballroom opened on Christmas Eve, 1934, capitalising on the dancing craze of the 1930s and allowing Maggie to provide for her family.

Having come from humble beginnings, Maggie was a multi-millionaire by the time she died in 1958.

The ballroom was burned down in a massive fire shortly after Maggie’s death, but reopened in 1960, with the famous neon signage erected around 1982.

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Dame Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022) was a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. In 1970s London, she and her partner, music manager Malcolm McClaren sold customized t-shirts, ripped up and embellished with anti-establishment slogans and trousers with long straps attached, hugely popular with the growing punk rock scene. Over time she started her own line, using classic elements from historical costumes and traditional tartan patterns, and though she was constantly ridiculed by the British press, she managed to eventually become one of the top fashion designers in the world, even being given the royal honor of the title: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). Delightfully ironic, she stayed true to her punk roots for her entire career. She continued to design and build her fashion empire involved in the theatrics of her shows and brand, and she managed to balance this with passionate climate activism, a message she wove into her designs and products.

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