Press and Media
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About the museum:
Stories of forgotten heroines fighting for equality told on International Women’s Day (2021)
Building a feminist museum from scratch - Rachel Crossley on Space Invaders podcast (2020)
‘Time to make Women’s History visible’ - Guest post by Rachel Crossley for Soroptimist International (2020)
Interview with Museum Director, Rachel Crossley, on Standard Issue podcast (2020)
Inspirational Women: museum co-founder Sara Huws - WeAreTheCity (2020)
Where to learn about women’s history in London - Evening Standard (2019)
Interview with Museum Director, Rachel Crossley (starts 14:18) - Resonance FM (2019)
The 17 London museums you have to visit - Evening Standard (2019)
Woman’s museum is great addition to borough - John Cruddas MP in the Barking & Dagenham Post
Making a home for women's history in east London - Women's History Month magazine
Women's history museum gets a permanent home in east London - Evening Standard
London’s first ever women’s museum hopes to ‘balance the history books’ - Romford Recorder
Making a Missing Museum: Jack the Ripper and Women’s History - Historians for History
Making a home for women’s history in London’s East End - History Workshop Online
Female historians want to build Britain's 'first women's museum' after Jack the Ripper stole it - The Telegraph
Meet the women who are actually trying to open a museum about suffragettes - The Independent
About East London women:
Working class suffrage campaigners (starts 5:57) - BBC Women’s Hour
Suffragettes 100: How women's suffrage became a reality - Newham Recorder
Smashed windows, broken rules: the dark suffragette sites of London - Guardian Cities
How boxer Annie Newton was banned from fighting in Hackney in the 1920s - Hackney Gazette
Annie Newton was told she couldn’t box in 1920s London – but she did it anyway - The Pool
Statues of Mary Wollstonecraft and Sylvia Pankhurst should be just the start - The Guardian