Rachel Waterhouse
Dame Rachel Elizabeth Waterhouse is a local historian of Birmingham and the West Midlands of England, consumer affairs activist and writer.
She has been chairman of the Consumers' Association, and a member of the National Consumer Council and of the Health and Safety Commission. She was a member of the group which resurrected the Lunar Society around 1990 and became its founder Chairman.
She became a founder member of The Victorian Society in 1958 and was instrumental in setting up the in 1967, serving as its first Chairman between 1967 and 1971.
She was president of the Birmingham and Midland Institute for 1992.Written works
- Birmingham and Midland Institute, 1854–1954
- Children in Hospital: a hundred years of child care in Birmingham
- A Hundred Years of Engineering Craftsmanship: a short history tracing the adventurous development of Tangye's Limited, Smethwick, 1857–1957
- King Edward VI High School for Girls, 1883–1983
- Six King Edward Schools, 1883–1983
- The 1990s and a Christian Response to Consumerism
- The Birmingham and Midland Institute: the Institute's contributions to Birmingham, 1855–2005
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