collaborations Himsworth began a working relationship with Leonard Beaumont in early 1935, taking inspiration from his art deco influenced coloured linocuts. Beaumont produced simple line drawings which Himsworth then translated onto her unique pieces of silverware. These silver items with their modernist designs included, Cigarette Box (1935) and Cigarette Case (1936), both are in Museums Sheffield Collection. Himsworth and Beaumont were exhibiting members of the Sheffield Art Crafts Guild. In July 1936, as departing Honorary Secretary of the Guild, Himsworth received from Beaumont, as the Guild Master a bound collection of his colour linocuts. Their joint efforts were exhibited at Brook Street Galleries, London (June 1937). Political influences Himsworth was interested in politics, particularly Russian communism. She was a member of the British-Soviet Friendship Society and the British Peace Committee (other members included the actress Dame Sybil Thorndike and the eminent archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe). Her political influences are sometimes visible in her work. A trip with her father in 1934 to the Soviet Union to view the decorative art collections held at the Hermitage and Kremlin had a lasting impression on her. In 1943 she was one of a group of Sheffield crafts people involved in the production of The Stalingrad Casket (Volgograd Panorama Museum, Russia). Personal life Himsworth was fiercely individualistic, she never married and spent her entire adult life in her Sheffield home with its purpose built silversmithing studio. She was a strict vegetarian and a member of the Vegetarian Society. She was an advocate for women's rights, particularly in respect to the Goldsmiths’ Company, an institution where women were virtually excluded. Her campaigning during the 1940s paved the way to full recognition for female silversmiths and goldsmiths in 1983. Later life Prior to the outbreak of World War Two she gave a series of lectures on Scandinavian silverware design to the Sheffield Silver Trade Technical Society. Her work was included in the ‘Britain Can Make It’ exhibition, held at the V&A Museum in London (Autumn 1946). Her silverware was included as part of the Cultural Festival (Applied Arts & Craft) in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics. staged by the V&A Museum. Throughout the 1950s she exhibited her silverware with the Red Rose Guild of Craftsmen at venues across Yorkshire and Lancashire. Himsworth ceased exhibiting her work in the 1960s but continued to make one-off pieces through to the mid-1970s. Following a highly successful