feminists and suffragists Archives

Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Brixton Hill Clinic Defence Campaign – defeating anti-abortionists in 1990

Jun

2022

The anti-abortion movement in the UK will no doubt be emboldened by recent events in the United States, and while the scope for them to challenge current laws seems to be limited there is a risk that they may step up direct action against health services. In recent years anti-abortionists have picketed St John's Medical ...

Vigil to remember victims of patriarchal violence – Telegraph Hill Park

Mar

2021

There was a vigil in Telegraph Hill Upper Park last night (20th March 2021) 'to remember victims of patriarchal violence' . A list of women killed by men stretched across the ground ending in Sarah Everard, recently killed while walking home in Clapham.Those present read out the following together: 'We lay down flowers and light candles ...

Women’s Suffrage Talk at Lewisham Library

Mar

2018

Coming up this Saturday 10th March 2018 at Lewisham Library (199 Lewisham High Street Se13 6lg), 'It’s not all about the suffragettes'.The free event, which runs from 10 am to 12 noon, .will feature Dr Claire Eustance discussing some of the women – and men – with connections to Lewisham and the wider local area who challenged ...

SE London Women Against Rape – Lewisham demo, 1980

Aug

2017

I found this browsing at the interesting digital archive of feminist magazine, Spare Rib. The July 1980 issues records a 300 strong march through Lewisham on May 10 1980, called by South East London Women Against Rape - a group set up 'by Lewisham women after some of them had become involved in helping a ...

Lewisham Suffragette Banner

Oct

2015

The movement for women's suffrage a century ago is once more under discussion thanks to the new 'Suffragette' movie. The Museum of London holds the original c.1910 banner of the Lewisham Women's Social and Political Union 'The figure of Justice is represented to emphasise the justice of the Votes for Women cause. Prison arrows adorn ...

Votes for Women 1913 – action in Bromley

Nov

2014

A couple of stories from the Bromley Record (1913) illustrating two different approaches in the campaign for votes for women at its height just before the First World War.In June there was a 'letter box outrage' in Bromley 'High Street, near the Royal Bell Hotel', with 'An attempt to destroy letters - presumably by Suffragettes'. ...

Peckham Black Womens Group 1985

Jul

2014

From Bishopsgate Institute on facebook, a 1985 flyer for a Peckham Black Womens Group 'Black Womens Open Day' at the St Giles Centre in Benhill Road, Camberwell. Line up included 'Asian Women's Dance plus dub poetry and song by Lioness Chant'.Peckham Black Women's Group later opened Peckham Black Women's Centre at 69 Bellenden Road, SE15. ...

Feminist Disco at Lewisham Arthouse

Jun

2014

Artist Rachael House is bringing her 'Feminist Disco' to Lewisham Arthouse in New Cross next Friday, 20 June 2014 (6 pm to 9 pm). As well lots of women's music classics, the event will also feature performance artist Silvia Ziranek and a film about women and the miners strike. Admision Free at 140 Lewisham Way SE14.

Maya Angelou in South London

May

2014

So long Maya Angelou (1928-2014), who died today. The great African-American writer is featured in a mural on a wall by Brockley station, somewhat the worse for wear at the moment, with words from her poem 'Life don't frighten me at all':'...Tough guys fightAll alone at nightLife doesn't frighten me at all.Panthers in the parkStrangers ...

Suffragette Hoax ‘Bombs’ in New Cross & Rotherhithe

Jan

2014

From the New York Times, 17 May 1913, reports of suffragette hoax 'bomb' packages being left around London, including 'outside a coffee house at New Cross' and 'in the public library' at Rotherhithe. The 'make-believe bombs... contained such innocuous materials as cabbage leaves, soot and earth'. This was in the same month that St Catherine's ...