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

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

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

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

A new BESS storage facility in Wakefield will bring noise pollution and loss of amenity to Heath Common

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

Wakefield women led the fight to prevent infant blindness – pushing policy change long before the government acted

A Yorkshire woman's exceptional life, dedicated to the welfare of women, children and families, spanning six decades of war and...

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

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

As Charles Waterton’s eyesight started to fail, he relied increasingly on the lynx eyes of sisters Helen and Eliza

Charles Waterton’s wife Anne-Mary spent her life surrounded by silence, her ‘quiet’ story sanitised, whitewashed and diminished, until now

Continuing the story of the Edmonstone sisters and how their lives change when Anne-Mary marries Charles Waterton and their mother...

Even being “from the Body of Helen Reid”, in the end, gave the Edmonstone sisters little protection.

For Charles Waterton, marriage becomes a transactional affair enabling him to replenish his depleted coffers

As a man of influence, Charles Waterton was able to be the architect of his own story, unlike Anne-Mary, his...

By covering up his connections to slavery, Charles Waterton also wrote out his wife’s, and her sisters’, connections to their...

As descendants of Demerara’s indigenous people, the Edmonstone girls continued to be under the influence of paternal patrimony, even beyond...

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

Sarah Cobham writes about Ann Clarkson, a forgotten woman of Wakefield who sought to protect animal welfare by not only...

The Forgotten Women of Wakefield project aims to honour women who contributed significantly to public life in the city, but...

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