Brunswick Festival http://www.brunswickfestival.org.uk/….. We are delighted to have been invited to display some of our work at the Regency Town House; 13 Brunswick Square on Saturday 16th August from 12 pm onwards. Please join us on the entrance level of the house, in the backroom on the right hand side. We will Read more
Yesterday we enjoyed International Women’s Day meeting people in the foyer of Jubilee Library. We sold a few books and badges and had some genuine interest in the work we are doing. Reminder that our ‘Drop-in’ this Tuesday 11th at 5.30 at the library is a special one to celebrate Read more
On Tuesday 29th October we were invited as guest speakers to talk at the Novium Museum, to the recently formed Chichester Women’s History Group. We had a wonderful afternoon. Our hosts and audience were very welcoming and our exchange of ideas was greatly beneficial to both groups. So much so, we are hoping to collaborate Read more
We had a very successful talk at the Friends Meeting House this week as part of the Ageing Well Festival….Our topics included Midwives in Brighton and Hove during the late 19th early 20th century; Elizabeth Robins, well known actress, writer and suffragist, Margaret Hardy, the 1st female Mayor of Brighton 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 Baths, Battersea Power Station and Battersea Arts Centre in the 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 meet many new people and also enjoy the musical events at the other end of 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 article by Maria Hogg about the Brighton Laundresses; A look at Havelock Road by 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 (WFL). While working from this building, the WFL advocated the 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 more…we found the room for them! We focused on 4 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 in service etc. We also talked about area research using the 1911 census in Find Read more