Actors belong on film sets, scientists belong in laboratories, and inventors belong somewhere among wires, blueprints, and workbenches filled with half-assembled machines. When someone moves easily between those worlds, the result can be a kind of confusion. People struggle to know which version of the person they are supposed to see.

History has a habit of misreading women before it understands them. Long before their contributions are recognised, many are dismissed as excessive in some way; too ambitious, too emotional, too unconventional, too much. This theme sits at the heart of the Unlabelled & Limitless Formerly “Too Much” series, which explores women whose ideas, influence, or behaviour challenged the expectations of their time. Few examples illustrate this pattern more clearly than Ada Lovelace. Wr