1888: Match Women Strike 1888: Match Women Strike
1900: Hackney Ayah’s Home Opens 1900: Hackney Ayah’s Home Opens
1904: Daisy Greville joins the SDF 1904: Daisy Greville joins the SDF
1914: East London Suffragettes formed 1914: East London Suffragettes formed
1921: Minnie Lansbury dies 1921: Minnie Lansbury dies
1929: Rego Factory Strike 1929: Rego Factory Strike
1938: Women of Quinn Square strike 1938: Women of Quinn Square strike
1970: Miss World Protest 1970: Miss World Protest
1974: Karpal Kaur Sandhu dies 1974: Karpal Kaur Sandhu dies
1987: Diane Abbott elected MP 1987: Diane Abbott elected MP
2010: Rushanara Ali elected MP 2010: Rushanara Ali elected MP
2015: Arifa Naseem forms Educate to Eradicate 2015: Arifa Naseem forms Educate to Eradicate
2016: Melanie Strickland faces jail 2016: Melanie Strickland faces jail
2018: Hackney SEND parents’ protest 2018: Hackney SEND parents’ protest

1888: Match Women Strike

1888: Match Women Strike at the Bryant & May factory by mostly young working class Irish women

1900: Hackney Ayah’s Home Opens

1900: Ayah’s home for abandoned Indian nannies opened in Hackney by Mrs Rogers

1904: Daisy Greville joins the SDF

1904: Daisy Greville (nee Maynard) joins the Social Democratic Federation, Britain’s first socialist political party. She would become one of its major funders

1914: East London Suffragettes formed

1914: East London Federation of Suffragettes formed by Sylvia Pankhurst

1921: Minnie Lansbury dies

1921: Minnie Lansbury dies after being imprisoned for her part in the Poplar Rate Revolt

1929: Rego Factory Strike

1929: Sarah Wesker leads 600 young women out on strike at the Rego Factory on Bethnal Green Rd

1938: Women of Quinn Square strike

1938: Women of Quinn Square organise a rent strike following the eviction of a tenant

1970: Miss World Protest

1970: Walthamstow’s Jo Robinson takes part in the Miss World protest at the Royal Albert Hall

1974: Karpal Kaur Sandhu dies

1974: Karpal Kaur Sandu, the world’s first Asian woman police officer, is murdered outside her Walthamstow home by her husband

1987: Diane Abbott elected MP

1987: Diane Abbott becomes the first black woman MP (for Hackney North and Stoke Newington)

2010: Rushanara Ali elected MP

2010: Rushanara Ali beats George Galloway, becoming the first Bangladeshi women to be elected to the Commons

2015: Arifa Naseem forms Educate to Eradicate

2015: Arifa Naseem from Walthamstow takes campaign against honour abuse and killing to UN

2016: Melanie Strickland faces jail

2016: Melanie Strickland narrowly avoids being first climate activists to be jailed in the UK

2018: Hackney SEND parents’ protest

2018: Parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities launch a legal case against Hackney Council over cuts to education provision