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Sarah Cobham writes about Ann Clarkson, a forgotten woman of Wakefield who sought to protect animal ...

Ann Hurst was Wakefield's most powerful business woman who owned a book- store, tea room and ...

As the US debates gender equality, Susan Isaacs’ life reminds us why women’s rights must be ...

A Leeds premiere drew thousands to see silent film star Stella Muir, but after a brief ...

How a Huddersfield teenager, Anita Lonsbrough, became one of Britain's most decorated swimmers

Sarah Leah Cobham looks back on the life and career of the renowned Wakefield Olympian, Denise ...

What's the role of comedy in the culture war? Are we really forbidden from saying anything ...

Helga Fox and Sarah Cobham delve into the world of the botanical artist Eliza Eve Gleadall, ...

The Forgotten Women of Wakefield project aims to honour women who contributed significantly to public life ...

Women of Bedford teamed up with The Place Theatre in Bedford to bring Amy Walmsley to ...

The continuing account of the successes and milestones achieved in the long campaign for equal suffrage ...

At Hatfeild Hall in 1910, Wakefield women joined the suffragist movement. Their pioneering activism left an ...

A silent march for Gaza’s victims became a protest against Britain’s complicity and its policing of ...

Wakefield play celebrates Alice Gostick, the art teacher who taught Henry Moore and Albert Wainwright

Sarah Cobham shares the final part of the extraordinary story of Wakefield's Edmonstone sisters, subject of ...

The story of Mary Frances Heaton, incarcerated in a mental health institution for speaking up for ...

Yorkshire baker and blogger Meryl White shares her recipe for Portugal Cake

Yorkshire Bylines remembers Vicky Seddon, a formidable campaigner, writer and friend who devoted decades to making ...

Barbara Briggs: Wakefield artist illustrator and traveller with an international reputation and a champion of working ...

Gertrude McPherson, née Briggs (1882–1948), defied convention as an artist, teacher and missionary from Wakefield to ...

Members of the Iranian diaspora and democracy supporters rally next month in Paris to protest the ...

The Iranian regime’s policy of harsh repression is a symptom of weakness and fear – the ...

Did Republican voters in the 2024 US elections just get fooled again – and when will ...

England’s flags risk being hijacked by hate, but Yorkshire’s white rose offers a symbol of unity, ...

Consultant psychiatrist Dr Helen Spencer, who has moved from stage to medicine and back again, puts ...

How metrics and numbers have come to rule our lives, and what we lose sight of ...

As Labour plough ahead with international trade agreements they need to be careful not to compromise ...

Some reflections on the impact the Supreme Court judgment and EHRC guidance is likely to have ...

Modern childcare fails families because it serves profit over people – it’s time to put infants ...

60 years after Murrow defied McCarthy on live TV, his legacy returns to Broadway – with ...