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