Formed in 1984 by Mark Ashton and his friend Mike Jackson, this group was only wound down in 2015. The London group used the bookshop Gay's the Word as their HQ. The largest fund-raising event was the 1984 "Pits and Perverts" benefit concert, in the Electric Ballroom in Camden Town.
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Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
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Mark Ashton
The crowd funded plaque was unveiled on 19 May 2017, Ashton's 57th birthday. ...
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Teresa Billington-Greig
School teacher and one of the first paid members of the Women's Social and Political Union. She left the WSPU - as she considered the leadership too autocratic, and helped create the Women's Freed...
1 memorial
Sexual Avengers
An activist gay network for resistance through direct action, solidarity & community building.
1 memorial
Nora Maude
Central Secretary of the Mothers' Union in 1925. In 1926 was quoted in newspapers as opposed to divorce, supporting a MU decision to deny membership to a divorced woman.
1 memorial
Phillis Wheatley
American writer who was the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Her name can also be given as Phillis Wheatley Peters or Phyllis or Wheatly. Born in West Africa, she was s...
1 memorial
Eva McLaren
Suffragist and leading member of Women’s Liberal Federation. Eva Maria McLaren (née Müller; was an English suffragist, writer and campaigner. She served as Superintendent of the Franchise departm...
1 memorial
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Royal Exchange
The Royal Exchange was established by Thomas Gresham in 1566, following his, and his father's, favourable experiences of the Antwerp Bourse as a place where merchants could arrange credit and loans...
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