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The Women's Institute (WI) is a community-based organization for women in the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand.The movement was founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, by Erland and Janet Lee with Adelaide Hoodless being the first speaker in 1897.
Edith Rigby (née Rayner) (18 October 1872 – 23 July 1950) was an English suffragette who used arson as a way to further the cause of women’s suffrage. She founded a night school in Preston called St Peter's School, aimed at educating women and girls. Later she became a prominent activist, and was incarcerated seven times and committed ...
The Corn Exchange, also known as the Women's Institute Hall, is a commercial building in West Street in Rochford, Essex, England. The structure, which is now used by the local branch of the Women's Institute , is a Grade II listed building .
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Merched y Wawr (Welsh for 'Daughters of the Dawn') is a voluntary, non-political, organisation for women in Wales. It is similar to the Women's Institute (WI) but its activities are conducted through the medium of Welsh. Its aims are to promote women's issues and to support culture, education and the arts in Wales.
Staff and students at the lake, 1950s. The college was formally established in 1948, and named after Lady Denman, the first chairwoman of the WI federation. [3] By the 21st century, students attending Denman did not have to be members of the WI, and the college accepted male and female learners, as well as those with young children for family courses in the Cookery School.
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An earlier, smaller protest of 50 women who called themselves the Women's Liberation Workshop, had taken place the year before in 1969. [69] The Women's Liberation Network formed in north London in the early 1970s, [70] a WLM group began in Bolton in 1970 with three members, a group formed in Norwich, as did one in Bristol. [71]