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This is our new leaflet…hot off the press ! We hope you like it.
It was designed by Emma Winterbottom. Find links to her beautiful design work at: https://the-dots.com/users/emma-winterbottom-1221661
Past Event
International Women’s Day celebration at the Dome Brighton, 2024
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
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Women’s History Month at Jubilee Library during March
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
Upcoming Event
Filia Conference October 2025
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
Past Event
London’s 1000th official blue plaque / September 2023
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
Past Event
Brighton and Hove Women’s History Group at the Ageing Well Festival
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
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Sussex Life Feature
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
Past Event
Informal Research Meeting
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
Research
Working women of Brighton & Hove in the 20th Century
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
Past Event
Brighton Women’s Suffrage (WSPU) Banner Petition
An amazing day for BHWHG! Valerie Mainstone, Debbie Waldon and Maria Hogg presented a petition to Brighton Council to ask for the Brighton Women’s Suffrage (WSPU) banner to be returned to Brighton from Manchester Museum, where it was presently displayed Read more