Winifred Holty

Lee Karen Stow; Hull History Centre; James Reckitt Library Trust; Hull City Council Central Library

Winifred Holtby’s First World War experience, and the effect it was to have on her vision for a better world, helped shape the writer and activist she became. This photographic exhibition brings to attention the writings and thoughts of a remarkable woman on the 80th Anniversary of her death.

Triangle Mill Sisters

Ruth Beazley and Local Libraries

One hundred women mill workers lived in a hostel at Triangle, near Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, between 1920s and 1970s. Ruth Beazley came across a unique collection of 200 photographs from this community of women. She used this in her art work and then conducted 6 video interviews with some of the ladies, now 60 – 90 years of age. Further archive research provided a record of ‘voices’ of the women across the full 50 years. The main outcome has been an exhibition in Sowerby Bridge library telling the story of life at the hostel and work at the mills.

http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/what-s-on/triangle-mill-sisters-library-exhibition-1-6912728

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Triangle-Mill-Sisters/688132067932920

Women in Theatre Group

Birmingham

A community heritage research project that explored the lives of women workers at the Birmingham Small Arms Factory during WWI. From gathered research, a diverse group of women from across Birmingham worked with an artistic team to create a theatre production, a project exhibition and online blog.

http://womenandtheatre.tumblr.com

rachelsnape@womenandtheatre.co.uk

March of Women

Scottish women researched and added great women of Scotland to the suffrage  play A Pageant of Great Women (1909) for a public performance at Glasgow Women’s Library followed by a procession along the streets of Bridgeton to Glasgow Drying Green on the eve of International Women’s Day 2015.

http://womenslibrary.org.uk/discover-our-projects/march-of-women/

History in Heels

Manx National Heritage (Isle of Man)

Pop-up displays and special events at seven Manx National Heritage sites on the Isle of Man (launched March 2015). From Civil War Countess to the fastest woman round the TT motorbike races, History in Heels takes a fresh and surprising approach to revealing remarkable Island women and their histories.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-31620633

http://www.manxnationalheritage.im/whats-on/detail/history-in-heels/