Virtual Learning

Where to find women’s and radical history online.

Ten feminist films to watch

https://medium.com/@esther_freeman/ten-feminist-films-for-lockdown-4aa28e82d479

Online exhibitions

Seven exhibitions on radical women’s history to explore during lockdown

https://medium.com/@esther_freeman/seven-exhibitions-on-radical-womens-history-to-explore-during-lockdown-37c985b57e92

Podcasts

10 of the best podcasts on radical women’s history

https://medium.com/@esther_freeman/lockdown-listening-10-podcasts-about-radical-women-b36500d7d205?sk=0d1463721e34f94169923edd39cbe6dc

Virtual walking tours

5 virtual walking tours for lockdown

https://medium.com/@esther_freeman/five-virtual-walking-tours-for-lockdown-511438fe47df


Articles


The East End women who fought for gay rights

http://walthamforestecho.co.uk/the-east-end-women-who-fought-for-gay-rights/

Women need to reconnect with the labour movement or we will never be equal

https://medium.com/@esther_freeman/women-need-to-reconnect-with-the-labour-movement-or-well-never-be-equal-2b5382c621d

Jane Savoy: the best woman in Old Ford

https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/jane-savoy

Mary Driscoll, Matchwoman, strike leader and shop owner

https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/mary-driscoll-matchwoman-strike-leader-and-shop-owner

Women and Chartism

https://spartacus-educational.com/CHwomen.htm

An introduction to the campaign for equal pay

http://www.unionhistory.info/equalpay/roaddisplay.php?irn=820

Explore individual women activists

East London

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/elizabeth-garrett-anderson/m02n16?categoryId=historical-figure&hl=en

Mary Leigh

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/mary-leigh/m0gkx_fy?categoryId=historical-figure&hl=en

Sylvia Pankhurst

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/sylvia-pankhurst/m01j79_?categoryId=historical-figure&hl=en

Diane Abbott

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/diane-abbott/m0kmws?hl=en

Annie Besant

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/annie-besant/m01cfs_?categoryId=historical-figure&hl=en

Edith Cavell

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/edith-cavell/m0f0rx?categoryId=historical-figure&hl=en

UK-wide

Florence Nightingale

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/florence-nightingale/m0pj3b?categoryId=historical-figure&hl=en

Ethel Smyth

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/ethel-smyth/m01ff4r?categoryId=historical-figure&hl=en

Olive Morris

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/olive-morris/m080nmzl?categoryId=historical-figure&hl=en

Vera Jack Holmes

https://artsandculture.google.com/search/asset/?p=lse-library&em=g11c5_67l_g&categoryId=historical-figure

International

Josephine Baker

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/josephine-baker/m01jrhn4?categoryId=historical-figure&hl=en

Harriet Tubman

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/harriet-tubman/m098yd?categoryId=historical-figure&hl=en

Irena Stanislawa Sendler

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/irena-sendler/m02xbt_?categoryId=historical-figure&hl=en

Anita Garibaldi

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/anita-garibaldi/m07bymw?categoryId=historical-figure&hl=en

Ida B wells

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/ida-b-wells/m02329s?categoryId=historical-figure&hl=en

Sylvia Rivera

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/sylvia-rivera/m093_r_?categoryId=historical-figure&hl=en

Archives

Women Activists of East London

https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/women-activists-of-east-london

London Cooperative Society

https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/co-operation

Swadhinata Trust

https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/collections/swadhinata-trust

Women’s library photographic collections 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lselibrary/albums

Sisterhood and after (oral history)

https://www.bl.uk/sisterhood