At a time when war raged across Europe, Ivy Benson was calling her own tune.
The pioneering musician and band leader, who was born in Holbeck, became something of a celebrity when war…
They were the formidable Leeds campaigners whose courage and determination helped women across the country finally win their long fight for the right to vote.
Now a century later, one of…
Inspirational women who have blazed a trail through history are being celebrated in an empowering new exhibition in Leeds.
A Woman’s Place? opens at Kirkstall’s Abbey House Museum…
Part of a new display exploring the often tempestuous history of protests, this Suffragette’s badge is a small but poignant reminder of the struggle women once endured to secure the right to…
