Come and join us for updates on our latest projects and for a relaxing chat about women’s history in Brighton and Hove. Meeting is from 5:30 – 7pm at Jubilee Library in the Community Area with optional drink at the Read more…
We are delighted to be invited to speak at Chichester Women’s History Group’s first public talk. We have been collaborating with them for the past year over Plaques; Statues and running a Women’s History Group. We hope for many more Read more…
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 for Nightingale Lane Nursery, Latchmere Read more…
Three members of our group, from left to right Sue Delafons, Jean Calder and Maria, attended the Mayor’s reception at the Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel on Friday 10th May 2024, to celebrate the outgoing Mayor Councillor Jackie O’Quinn’s year in office. We met Read more…
Statues Where To Be A Woman You can’t be what you can’t see, so where are all the statues of women? In some places there are many more sculptures of men – and even animals. In their quest to learn Read more…
Mary Hare, was a pioneer campaigner for the deaf and founder of a special school on the same site. Mary was also a suffragette and established a Women’s Police force in Brighton during the first World War. Congratulations to our Read more…
It was designed by Emma Winterbottom. Find links to her beautiful design work at: https://the-dots.com/users/emma-winterbottom-1221661
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 meet many new people and 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 century “ There is an Read more…
