Please come to the launch of a new book "You Can't Kill the Spirit" the story of the women against pit closures who set up camp 24/7 for over five months, outside some of the most threatened collieries in January 1993 to stop the further destruction of mining communities. Waterstones Book Shop Orchard Square, Sheffield S1 2FB Sunday 13th January 4:30 and at the … [Read more...]
A Different Approach in Leeds
The Campaign To End Leeds Sex Trade (CELST), SPACE International and Build A Girl proudly presents 'A Different Approach', an exploration of leading exiting strategies, activism and abolition. The event will bring together women from across the globe to discuss their experiences in prostitution and of frontline service provision to women in prostitution, and their collective … [Read more...]
Volunteers wanted for Remembering Resistance project
Remembering Resistance is a project that brings to life the last 100 years of women’s involvement in protests in the North of England. They are seeking women to get involved in two ways: They are inviting women who have been involved in protest in the North of England over the last few decades to tell their stories. They are also looking for volunteer … [Read more...]
Were you at Greenham Common Peace Camp?
Were you a Greenham Woman? Do you have any stories about Greenham? Do you have friends, colleagues or family members who were at Greenham? A new project wants to interview women who were involved in the Greenham Common Peace Camp between 1981 and 2000. The Heritage Lottery Fund South West has awarded Cornish feminist theatre hub Scary Little Girls, in partnership with The … [Read more...]
A Century of Women’s Rights: the Alice Bacon lecture
Baroness Brenda Hale, the country’s most senior female lawyer will give the 2019 Alice Bacon public lecture at Leeds University, honouring the achievements of Yorkshire's first woman MP. Lady Hale, who is the UK’s first woman law lord and the first female president of the Supreme Court, will talk on A Century of Women’s Rights – 2019 marks the centenary of women being able to … [Read more...]