Women’s Pioneer Housing is a unique partner of the Citizens project. Set up by women suffragists and suffragettes nearly 100 years ago, it became London’s first post-war housing service for single working women and today it continues to defend its original purpose: to cater for ‘professional and other women of moderate means who require individual … Read more
History has been a passion for me ever since I was a child. Sunday evenings were spent watching Time Team, and weekends would be filled with visits to museums, castles, forts and stately homes. This passion never went away and I ended up studying History at Lancaster University. I enjoyed talking and discussing History with … Read more
February 2018 marks the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, the Act which extended the franchise to (some) women for the first time. Commemorative plans for the centenary are well underway and there is no doubt that this momentous point in British history will get the attention it deserves. However, even at this … Read more
“The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere. Any additional rules made to govern men’s conduct added nothing to the perfection already found on the gospel of Jesus Christ.” John Wyclif. Lollardy was a religious movement calling for reform of the Church from the mid-14th century until the English Reformation. John … Read more
‘Anybody that would try to break up an affair as wonderful as this, with these kinds of proceedings with these wonderful people and wonderful girls from the entire world have gotta be on some kind of dope’.[1] This was the retort of Miss World host Bob Hope following the protest of feminist activists at the … Read more
Visitors to our Festival of History back in June may remember having witnessed a suffragette martial arts class. Entitled Jam, Jerusalem & Jui-Jitsu, these demonstrations gave members of the public an insight into one of the many tactics employed by the WSPU as part of their campaign to win the vote. Viewed traditionally as the … Read more
Emily Pugh is a Citizens project intern working with Guildford Museum. Her interest in museums and exhibitions developed at a young age and has led her to complete an MA in Public History at Royal Holloway. She is passionate about how we communicate the past through museums and hopes to pursue a career in this … Read more
Throughout the Second World War British feminist groups remained active, pushing for legal and economic equality between men and women. The war had thrown into stark relief questions about the nature of the society the British were fighting to preserve. For some, this highlighted faults in this society that were contradictory to the wars lofty … Read more
It is very exciting to be offered the opportunity to work with an organisation that can bring one of the people we are so very proud of to a much larger audience … The digital content will be of great benefit to the physical Museum and the Museum website. It is far easier to tell … Read more
Six short months into our three year Citizens project here at Royal Holloway, University of London, and much has been already been achieved. We have filmed most of the content for our Women’s Suffrage MOOC with the UK Parliament and our first batch of school resources, hosted our first of three Festivals of History, appointed … Read more
