Blog – Women's History Birmingham

Sharing Stories of Activism

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June 16, 2017

“Thank you for sharing your stories and for making us aware and maybe helping us to see what we can do in the future.” Listening to women talk about their…

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Clever hands and a fertile brain: The career of Florence George

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April 24, 2017

Published in 1901, Florence George’s ‘King Edward’s Cookery Book’ had a clear objective: to provide a “concise and methodical manual… as useful to those who have £200 per year at…

Birmingham Quaker Women in Revolutionary Russia

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March 30, 2017

As we mark the centenary of the Russian revolutions of 1917 it is an opportune moment to remember two women who were in Russia throughout this momentous year. Florence Barrow…

18th Century Girl Elopes!

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February 14, 2017

Exciting elopement from Moseley village! Youthful passion; parental horror! Well, the headlines to the event described here might have read something like that. This story comes from the James Watt…

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Am I not a Woman and a Sister

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February 9, 2017

The image used in ‘The First Report of the Female Society for Birmingham, West-Bromwich, Wednesbury, Walsall, and their respective neighbourhoods’ shows a black woman.

Our Spring Events

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January 23, 2017

Here are the details for our four Spring events. If you would like to attend any of the sessions then please contact womenshistorybham@gmail.com. Book soon to ensure a place. Cadbury Research…

Girls and Women of Birmingham’s Percussion Cap Industry

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January 6, 2017

On Sunday 2nd October 1859 fifteen girls and young women were interred in one vault in the church of St Mary Whittall Street in the heart of Birmingham’s Gun Quarter.…

The Birmingham Typist

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November 23, 2016

In the rich soil of the cemetery at Key Hill in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter a far richer soil is concealed. Where else (other than in a large biographical dictionary) might…

News report on suffragette attack on Kings Norton train station

Votes for Women!

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November 8, 2016

On Monday 16th March 1914, the Birmingham Daily Post reported an incident that had occurred in Birmingham that weekend: MILITANTS BUSY NIGHT SACRILEGE AT BIRMINGHAM CATHEDRAL. INTERIOR DISFIGURED WITH WHITE…

Catherine Hall Lecture at the BMI, 24 September 2016

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October 27, 2016

In her talk, Catherine Hall looked back to her time as part of the women’s liberation movement in Birmingham in the 1970s, and spoke about putting together the original ‘Birmingham…

WHB event: talk by Catherine Hall at BMI

Event Review: Recovering Women from Invisibility

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October 10, 2016

We were incredibly pleased that Professor Catherine Hall was able to join us on 24 September to talk about putting the original Past & Present trail together. It was particularly…

Join us and Professor Catherine Hall at the BMI

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September 6, 2016

We are delighted to announce that our next event will take place on the afternoon of Saturday 24 September in the Birmingham and Midland Institute when we will be joined…