Joyce Pickard, Peace Campaigner

Joyce Pickard (1921- 2017), Quaker, peace campaigner, and educator, was born in Derby in 1921, and educated at the University of London Westfield College, taking a modern language degree and then a teaching certificate. She moved to York when she was appointed head teacher at the Mount School in 1960, the youngest ever, and she […]

Susan Blore, co-founder of York Rhematoid Arthritis Group

Susan (1957- ) was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, (RA), in 2001. During a York Hospital appointment in 2006, a health professional told her that York was ‘crying out’ for an RA support group. Susan discussed this with women who had attended a patient education course with her, and they decided to try and organise this. […]

Irene Faulkner, Educator, Councillor, Magistrate

Irene Faulkner [1918 – 2010], of South Bank, York, trained as a nursery teacher and later worked in further education.  A pioneer in the world of education, in the early 1950, when there was no nursery education available, in order to help working mothers with very small children, she set up a nursery school at […]

Celebration Event [15th December]

We are planning a celebration event at York Explore Library, 11am to 2pm on Saturday, 15 December 2018. Confirmed speakers include Rachael Maskell MP, Laura Yeoman, Archivist at York Explore, and Yvie Holder, Equalities Campaigner and Poet. There will be an exhibition, website launch, and cake. Drop-in free session. Please put this date in your […]

York women’s group is looking for new members

WOMEN’S group Herstory.York is seeking additional members. The group’s aim is to research 100 women whose stories have remained largely untold, but who have effected change in the city. These women were active between 1918, when some women were able to vote for the first time, and 2018 and the project aims to highlight their […]