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Help create our exhibition
On Monday 15th December, our volunteer team will come together again to help design our exhibition: Kitchen Resistance. Since the start of 2025, the team have been conducting archive research and oral history interviews to discover how women have used food as a…
Volunteers receive oral history training
This week volunteers came together to learn oral history interviewing skills, as part of the Kitchen Resistance project by Share UK, funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund. The training was run by Rib Davis, an affiliated Oral History Society Trainer. The…
Volunteers prepare for groundbreaking new research project
Volunteers met for the first time to begin work on new research project into how women use food as resistance. The project is the first of its kind and aims to shatter the stereotypes around women’s passive role in the kitchen. The project is called Kitchen…
Craftivism Challenge 2020 launches
On 16th November we launched our #craftvism2020 challenge to celebrate women activists in East London.We’ve been doing craftivism events regularly since 2016, working with the public to create over five metres of bunting that commemorates equality, diversity and…
Our exhibition is back, bigger and better
It’s been years in the development; hours of sitting in cold archives; many cups of tea over oral history interviews; but finally our new Women Activists of East London exhibition is back. And it’s even better than last time. I am so excited about the…
Seeking stories of queer women activists
The stories of queer women are often missing from our narratives of feminist activism. That’s why we decided to dedicate our latest oral history project to uncovering some of those stories. We are delighted that we have already recorded an interview with a…