Past Event

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…

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 and stored. We presented a petition of nearly 500 signatures. Read more…

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-strikesand forcible feeding.