Suffragette – The Leeds Big Bookend

The Cloth Fettler, the Charwoman and the Cow Keeper’s Wife: Leeds Led the Way on Votes for Women, by Chris Nickson

By Fiona Gell / 20 April 2016

Chris Nickson tells us how Leeds women led the way, right from the beginning, in the fight for women’s right to vote. Yorkshire led the way in the 19th century fight for women’s suffrage. The […]

Never Underestimate the Women by Chris Nickson

By Fiona Gell / 21 October 2015

With the release of Suffragette this month, Chris Nickson is timely in reminding us of some of the Leeds women who also took part in the fight for women’s votes and emancipation. Trail blazers in their

Re-writing, Re-thinking and Re-singing History by Boff Whalley

By Fiona Gell / 17 January 2014

That lad at the back of the class, slumped on one elbow and looking out of the window, bored to distraction during a three-hour lesson, that’s me. Last thing on a Friday, an entire afternoon