Brenda Rawnsley  Brenda Rawnsley (31 July 1916 – 25 June 2007) was a British arts campaigner who devised and managed the innovative School Prints scheme that provided artwork to primary schools. She was decorated for her services during the Second World War. Brenda Mary Rawnsley (née Hugh-Jones) was born on 31 July 1916 in Oxford, Oxfordshire. She was educated at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, before winning a scholarship to the University of Oxford. In 1939 Rawnsley enlisted in the ATS Officer Cadet training unit, but soon left to work for the Ministry of Economic Warfare in London. In 1941 she became a Women's Auxiliary Air Force Officer and was posted abroad, working in Heliopolis, RAF Ramleh in Palestine, Alexandria and Algiers. Later, in England, she worked with Duncan Sandys forecasting the course of flying bombs (V1s) and rockets (V2s) In June 1945 she undertook an intelligence mission to a German bomb factory in the Harz Mountains. In 1945 Rawnsley, by now a Squadron Leader, left the service with several medals. In 1935 Rawnsley's future husband, Derek Rawnsley, had founded Picture Hire Limited and School Prints Limited. The former loaned original works to private homes while School Prints Ltd hired reproductions to secondary Schools. During the war, following Derek's death in 1943, School Prints Ltd was managed by Derek's assistant, Dorothy Bland. In 1945 Rawnsley took over the running of School Prints Ltd and took advice from art historian Herbert Read. She started a new project to commission original lithographs to rent to primary Schools. In 1946 she sent letters to a large number of British artists: “We are producing a series of auto-lithographs … for use in schools, as a means of giving school children an understanding of contemporary art. By keeping the price as low as possible, we are able to bring this scheme … within reach of all Education Authorities.”. The selected artists were asked to produce a lithograph using no more than six colours, to help with mass production. Artists in the first two series of prints produced in 1946 and 1947 included John Nash (Harvesting, 1947), Feliks Topolski, Tom Skeaping, David Gentleman, Edwin La Dell (Tower of London, 1945), Hans Feibusch, L.S. Lowry (Punch and Judy, 1946), Michael Rothenstein, Julian Trevelyan (Harbour, 1946) and John Tunnard.