As women today we have the freedom to gain an education, work and manage our finances. Visionary Victorian women dreamed this dream and then made it happen. Elizabeth and others created the future we live today. SPEW – how it started (1859) Society for Promoting the... Read More
The climate change debate reminds me of the fight for the vote. Peaceful persuasion or civil disobedience? Both were used in the long fight to gain the vote for women. There was nearly one hundred years of campaigning to win the vote for women. Before 1832 no law... Read More
Thanks to Congleton Museum for this photograph. https://www.congletonmuseum.co.uk/ Another day dawns and already the traffic is passing by. For years now the road has connected Congleton and Buxton. Today there is a slight buzz of expectation as a visitor is... Read More
Susan Munro, Chair of the Elizabeth Group, with the statue of Elizabeth just after it was unveiled. On International Women’s Day 2022 Congleton was out in force to celebrate Elizabeth’s achievements. She had lived here for nearly fifty years and it was from her... Read More
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/scolds-bridle Elizabeth lived most of her adult life in Congleton; in 1824 Jane Runcorn was put in a ‘brank’ or scold’s bridle and paraded through the streets of Congleton as a punishment for being a gossip. As late as... Read More
Strong willed and intelligent, Elizabeth really wanted to be stretched and challenged to learn. Her brother went to university and that would have really suited her; being a female, that was not an option. Elizabeth was determined and her two years at Fulneck School... Read More
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