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New podcast series charting women’s fight for equal pay to launch this week

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 18 August 2020 at 15:55

Rebel Women’s latest series marks the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Equal Pay Act and aims to raise awareness of the ongoing battle for parity

Making Her Mark: new exhibition shows that women’s activism in Hackney didn’t end after 1918

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 5 February 2018 at 11:23

Womens Day Parade poster. Image: Lenthall Road Workshop

The stories of Hackney’s female activists over the past century are being celebrated at Hackney Museum – plus, a chance to nominate your own inspirational local women

Gayhurst Community School has a pint-sized gallery

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 11 September 2017 at 13:45

Hashtag art: Gayhurst's #TAG is Hackney's newest gallery. Photographs: Gayhurst Community School

The primary school in London Fields has launched The Art Gallery, or #TAG

Sylvia Pankhurst: East London suffragette may get a statue in Bow

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 25 May 2016 at 15:49

Statue on Roman Road would be part of a wider art trail that celebrates East London’s ‘amazing visionary women’