East End Women’s Museum and Hackney Museum would like to invite you to the launch of the exhibition ‘Making Her Mark: 100 Years of Women’s Activism in Hackney’.
In 1918 most women over 30 gained the right to vote in parliamentary elections. But the story of women’s activism in Hackney doesn’t begin or end with the suffragettes.
Over the past 100 years, local women have brought about change in their community and in wider society through political campaigns, industrial action, peaceful protest, direct action, and the arts.
Read more here.