Our blue plaques for women campaign made the news in the Chichester Observer.
In a double-page spread, journalist Elaine Hammond tells the stories behind the three plaques CWHG secured for women who helped shape Chichester’s history. They are Quaker Margery Wilkinson, who was imprisoned for her beliefs; poet and novelist Charlotte Turner Smith, who took art lessons at a North Street studio; and Queen Elizabeth I, who stayed in the city in August 1591 on one of her royal progresses.
The article recalls our March procession through the city, led by town crier Richard Plowman, with Kate Mosse, Jess Brown-Fuller MP and the Mayor, Sean McHale. It also includes contributions from our founder Francesca Tambling and group member Dr Susan Thomas, and covers the Chichester Society’s plaque for James Bennett Freeland, who created Oaklands Park.
As Francesca says in the piece, men’s plaques in Chichester still outnumber women’s, and our aim is to keep closing that gap.
