In 2019, we successfully campaigned for the unveiling of the Minnie Turner plaque at 13-14 Victoria Road, Montpelier, Brighton. Minnie is of particular interest to us, due to her work acting as both holiday destination and refuge for suffragettes recovering from imprisonment, hunger-strikes
and forcible feeding.
Jeanne Rathbone has lived in Battersea since she was a teenager after immigrating from Ireland in the 1960’s. A practising Humanist Celebrant, and very much involved in local community politics, Jeanne was instrumental in campaigning Read more…
We enjoyed another successful year with our stall at the International Women’s Day Celebrations in the Dome. This year we were delighted to be positioned in the beautiful new Corn Exchange where we were able to Read more…
The BHWHG have a small exhibition inside the Library until the end of March. We are displaying a few pieces of research from our recent project “ Working Women of the late 19th/ early 20th Read more…