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…
https://www.filia.org.uk/tickets The Brighton and Hove Women’s History Group are delighted to be supporting and participating in this conference next year. If you participated in their Brighton Conference of 1996, and can assist with the project below, please contact brighton96@filia.org.uk Keep an eye Read more…
London’s 1000th official blue plaque was unveiled last week, in a location just off Strand in central London. The latest addition to the London blue plaques scheme marks the former London headquarters of the suffragist organisation, the Women’s Freedom League Read more…
3rd October 2023 The BHWHG had a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon delivering our first talk to the Ageing Well Festival at Hove Library. We had a full attendance, plus some enthusiasts who turned up hoping there was room for a few Read more…
We were delighted to be featured in a 3 page spread in the March addition of Sussex Life. Thanks to Kate Rice for doing the interview and write up. The article talked about our past and present work / research and included photos of the committee; Read more…
We had a useful get together of 7 members on Tuesday 15th November at the Jubilee Library. We discussed some of the jobs that we might research in our new project ‘Working Women in Brighton and Hove in the 20th Century’’ …such as factory workers; laundresses; Women in the hospitality industry and women Read more…
Our current research project is the ‘Working women of Brighton & Hove in the 20th Century’ project. Our aim is to research and map significant women in Brighton & Hove such as the female workers at Brighton’s once iconic store, Read more…