Group    From 1926 

Suffragette Fellowship

Categories: Gender Issues

Founded by Edith How-Martyn to "perpetuate the memory of the pioneers and outstanding events connected with women's emancipation and especially with the militant suffrage campaign, 1905-14, and thus keep alive the suffragette spirit".

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Suffragette Fellowship

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Suffragettes sculpture scroll

This is made of fibreglass finished in cold cast bronze, and the scroll form ...

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Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners

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 ...

Group, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Lady Jane Francesca Wilde

Lady Jane Francesca Wilde

Born Dublin. Mother of Oscar Wilde. Poet under the pseudonym ‘Speranza’. Supporter of the Irish nationalist movement and advocate of women’s rights. Died 146 (now 87) Oakley Street.

Person, Gender Issues, Nationalism, Poetry, Ireland

1 memorial
Lilian Faithfull

Lilian Faithfull

English teacher, headmistress, women's rights advocate, magistrate, social worker and humanitarian. Born Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, she graduated with a first in English at Oxford University in 188...

Person, Education, Gender Issues, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Women's Social and Political Union

Women's Social and Political Union

The leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage, founded in 1903, was known from 1906 as the suffragettes. These were the women who set fire to post boxes, broke windows in promi...

Group, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration

4 memorials
Phillis Wheatley

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...

Person, Gender Issues, Poetry, Race Issues, Africa, USA

1 memorial

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Sugar

Sugar

NW6, West End Lane, Bridge

Our information comes from: CNJ, Ham&High, CNJ. November 2024: The CNJ reported that the Sugar plaque has gone missing.

2 subjects commemorated
Alexandra Koppke

Alexandra Koppke

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb.

Person, Tragedy

1 memorial
R. Tatnell

R. Tatnell

Name on one of the corner plaques of the East Ham WW1 memorial.

Person

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sir Frederick Hopkins

Sir Frederick Hopkins

Biochemist. Born Frederick Gowland Hopkins at 16 Marine Parade, Eastbourne. He studied at Guy's Hospital, where he received the University of London gold medal. In 1897 he became the first lecturer...

Person, Science

2 memorials