B&H Women's History Group

We exist to raise awareness of women’s contribution to the history of Sussex, especially in Brighton and Hove. Here's some of our successes. Join us. You can sign up to our mailing list here: rth.org.uk/womens-history… #WomensHistoryMonth #WomensDay

Fascinating episode of BBC’s Great Lives. Lady Eve Balfour, founder of @SoilAssociation, author of The Living Soil and pioneer of the regenerative farming movement. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Farewell, racial stereotypes. Now we have the true tale of an Indian princess turned suffragette by @AnjMohindra theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

What a gorgeous interview. Sound advice, if you want to support #womensfootball watch their matches. And what better club to join than @LewesFCWomen, 1st for #EqualPay 👏🏾 lewesfc.com/teams/womens-1… See you there! #WEURO2022

Great to see the East End Match Women’s Strike of 1888 has been commemorated with a blue plaque. These women changed Labour history and spear headed new unionism. #EastEnders timeout.com/london/news/th…

Dorothy ‘Mary’ Molony, Irish #Suffragette, famously disrupted the 1908 #Dundee by-election by ringing a hand bell every time the Liberal candidate, Winston #Churchill attempted to address a crowd. Churchill opposed female suffrage as he said they were well represented by men.

Charlotte Dod (1871-1960) was an English multi-sport athlete, best known as a tennis player. She won the Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Championship five times, the first one when she was only fifteen in the summer of 1887. She remains the youngest ladies' singles champion

Ethel Ellis (Headteacher 1909-1937) brought @VarndeanSchool school to its current site in 1926. She made more progress to girls' education in 40 years than in all previous time. Lovely history of Ellis and the school here: varndean.co.uk/historyalumni

Hooray! We’ve been waiting a long time for this. 🙌🏽 🏊‍♀️

Without the combined efforts of the ATA’s 4,000 employees, the outcome of the WW2 could have been very different. 7/7

ATA women were the glamour girls of the Second World War, but they were also unapologetic pioneers of female aviation and equal pay. Together, they became the first women to receive equal pay to their male counterparts. 6/7

In January 1940, eight female pilots joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) which employed civilians to deliver planes from factories to airfields across the UK during the WW2. It was Pauline Gower who cleared the pathway for women in the ATA. 1/7

@grannylovekin @FriendsTNA And all in those long skirts, corsets and silly hats too!

@FriendsTNA @BrightonWHG ....bet this was happening in Sussex too.

#OnThisDay in 1745, the history of women's cricket can be traced to a match between two Surrey villages🏏 "There was of bothe sexes the greatest number that ever was seen on such an occasion. The girls bowled, batted, ran and catches as well as most men could do in that game."

@wuthering_alice That’s great to hear.

@wuthering_alice But Culpeper concedes that he had never attended a birth like many of those male writers who appropriated knowledge from women. Sharpe changed things dramatically breaking into the male medical field. Just saying let’s remember what women did. The men always get the praise.

@wuthering_alice Hmm. Most midwifery manuals of the period were written by men, some of whom had never witnessed a childbirth. In response Jane Sharp wrote the Midwives book to help and empower women around conception and childbirth to make it safer.

Members of our #WomensHistory group and ⁦@MayorOfficeBHCC⁩ outside 22 Montpelier Crescent #Brighton to unveil a commemorative #blueplaque for pioneering woman doctor Dr. Octavia Wilberforce and actor/author/suffragette Elizabeth Robins.