Victoria was living with her husband Karl Hooper and 5 year old son at 104 Tulse Hill in 1911. They were divorced 3 years later.

Mrs Margaret Graham, the first female pilot to make a solo balloon ascent

How short our memories are. Just a few years ago, nurses carried this country through a pandemic, and now they're suffering a 55% surge in racist abuse. To every nurse: London stands with you. You are loved and valued, and always will be.

The comedian, Jo Brand, is to be the voice of the annual Poppy Day appeal across London’s transport this year. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/jo-...

1/2 Born Felicia Catherine Glanvill in Peckham 1862, Kate Harvey became profoundly deaf in childhood, maybe a result of illness. She was widowed 1905 & joined the Women’s Freedom League and was close friends with founder Charlotte Despard. She became a physiotherapist and opened a home for ...

After this time, George Eliot moved into Holly Lodge, Wimbledon Park Road, Wandsworth after publication of her first novel Adam Bede. It was here she finished Mill on the Floss and had intended to stay at this address for a long time but soon found the house was overlooked “by houses full of eyes.”

My thoughts today are with Prunella’s loved ones. She was a stalwart of Wandsworth Labour and will be dearly missed by us all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Actress Elsa Lanchester b1902 Lewisham, also lived Norwood, Clapham, Catford & Battersea in childhood. She left for Hollywood in 1930s, most famous role Bride of Frankenstein. She died 1986, her remains have now been discovered in a rose garden in N Hollywood www.bbc.com/news/article...

1/2 Mabel Constanduros (nee Tilling, member of bus company family) b1880 Peckham, writer & actress. Pioneer of radio comedy, best known for creating, writing & performing in The Buggins, the first very popular comic cockney radio family set in Walworth.

1/2 Margarete ‘Grete’ Marks b1899 Cologne, modernist ceramist lived 40+ years Auckland Hill, Upper Norwood. Goebbels derided her work & featured in the notorious Degenerate Art exhibition, 1937. As a Jew she was forced to sell her factory at a knock down price under the Nazi aryanisation programme.

Happy Birthday, Maggi Hambling, graduate of Camberwell School of Art, 1964-67. Yesterday was her 80th birthday.

Elizabeth Obi (on the left in the photo below) was a member of the British Black Panthers and co-founder with close friend Olive Morris of the Brixton Black Women's Group. www.ourhistory.org.uk/the-legacy-o...

In such good company: when new Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature sign the Roll, they can choose from George Eliot’s, Lord Byron’s or Jean Rhys’ pens; Andrea Levy’s, Arnold Wesker’s or T.S. Eliot’s fountain pens; or Charles Dickens’ quill.

Elizabeth Obi (on the left in the photo below) was a member of the British Black Panthers and co-founder with close friend Olive Morris of the Brixton Black Women's Group. www.ourhistory.org.uk/the-legacy-o...

Great new exbo at my place of work #LSBU on community activism in SE1 in 1970s @se1.news. Free to all so come along to Borough Road Gallery at 103 Borough Road, SE1 0EH 😊. #localhistory @chppc.bsky.social

1/2 Ruth Doggett, artist, b1881. Grew up over haberdashers shop in Ivanhoe Road, Camberwell. Later family moved to Cambridge where she attended Cambridge School of Arts. Later returned to London to attend Westminster School of Art where she won awards.

1/2 Katherine O'Shea (Katie to her friends) b1846, lover, later wife, of CS Parnell, Irish Nationalist leader. Estranged from husband William she lived at Wonersh Lodge, Eltham where, according to William's divorce petition, she committed adultery with Parnell from 1880 to 1890.

Maudsley Hospital NHS Dispute 1988 COHSE Nurses

Thanks to Women of South London for alerting us to Annie Brewster. Great to know she lived here in Dulwich and we have added her to our 'Dulwich People' page, #LocalHistory www.dulwichsociety.com/people/annie...

Margaret Archer, Lady Mayoress of Battersea 1913-14, born in Halifax, Canada. She was the first wife of John Archer, first black mayor in London.They lived at 55 Brynmaer Road, Battersea. www.bajanthings.com/john-richard...

And a library! www.southwark.gov.uk/culture-and-...

1/3 Poet, journalist, broadcaster & activist, Una Marson born Jamaica 1905 arrived in London 1932. She initially stayed with Dr Harold Moody, founder of League of Coloured Peoples, in Peckham and finding the racism in London a shock she joined him in addressing racial issues

The 1881 census shows Annie living with her father, stepmother and sister at 2 Derby Villas, Grove Vale, East Dulwich.

1/2 Cecilia Glaisher (nee Belville) b1828 Park Place, Greenwich, scientific photographer/illustrator. Married James Glaisher 1851 when she was 15, he was 20 yrs older. They lived Dartmouth at Terrace, Blackheath. ceciliaglaisher.com

Dr Kerridge b1901 grew up in Dunscombe Hill in Forest Hill, Lewisham.

Also a South London women! When not at sea, she lived for many years at 143 Kennington Road with sister Frances and opposite where sister Jean ran a girls' club. The sisters were air raid wardens in WW2 in Lambeth, and helped and sponsored child refugees from Austria

Meet Fanny Pease (1866–1946) #Nurse & #Suffragette Born in #Woolwich she was force fed at Holloway Prison for suffrage activism. Awarded an RRC for WW2 nursing #HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed #NursesInRed #Wikipedia @rcnhistory.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_P...

Salter Road , the gardens in Southwark Park, her statue ...Bermondsey remembers her .

You may well have walked along some of the streets of houses built when Ada Salter was Mayor of Bermondsey in the 1920s and which survived the Blitz, unlike many which surrounded them. An early environmentalist, she lined the streets of Bermondsey with over 9000 trees. We are lucky indeed!

Happy Birthday Ada Salter (nee Brown) born OTD 1866. Bermondsey Icon. - Social Reformer - Trade unionist - Environmentalist - Pacifist - First woman councillor Bermondsey 1909 - First woman mayor in London 1922 - First labour woman mayor in UK

This day in social work history ⏳ 14th July 2005: Cicely Saunders, nurse, social worker, physician and writer, died in Bromley (aged 97). Saunders was the founder of St Christopher’s Hospice, considered to be the first modern hospice.

1/2 Ursula Eason b1910 Mount Nod Road, Streatham, pioneered TV programmes for deaf children. She joined BBC 1933 in Belfast, moving to children’s tv in London 1952, becoming Asst. Head Children’s Programmes 1955. Partially deaf herself, she developed the monthly ‘For Deaf Children’ 1953 …

A statue of Fanny Wilkinson, early professional female gardener, has been unveiled in Coronation Gardens, Wandsworth www.bbc.com/news/article...

Charlotte Sherman leased/rented 30 Loughborough Road c.1910-1922 and set up a home for young girls here. Emma Percival (not yet found much about her) was the matron living with between 6 and 10 girls aged 2-16. Wonder if Charlotte had other smaller homes for girls too.

1/2 Charlotte Sharman b1832, Union Place, Southwark was concerned about young girls living on the street and, after placing many with suitable families, she raised sufficient money to open an orphanage in 1867 in West Square to provide “a home & domestic training for destitute orphan girls”.

Opening on 15 July A Vanishing Kennington, an exhibition of the Manning Photographers studio archive, now passed to Lambeth Archives, it charts the lives of Lambeth residents and businesses over seventy years from nearly half a million photos. #lambetharchives #photography #lambeth #southlondon

A plaque honouring Jeanie Nassau Senior will be unveiled this Friday, 4 July, at 2pm at Battersea Arts Centre, the site of Elm House where she lived with her husband. Organised by the Battersea Society. All welcome.

Wimbledon champion Dora Boothby lived in Harold Road, Upper Norwood in 1901, later living in South Norwood Hill. She won silver medal at the 1908 Olympics, the 1909 Ladies Singles Champion at Wimbledon, also winning the mixed doubles title in Badminton Championships same year.

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1/2 Dora Boetemah b1957 Ghana, housing activist. 1977 moved to Angell Town Estate, Brixton, 1987 founded Angell Town Community Project to ensure tenants were fully involved with voting rights in the redevelopment of their estate.

‘Sheroes’ of Angell Town honoured Two of the “sheroes” of Brixton were honoured and remembered with a ceremony in Angell Town. As people living on the estate celebrated with their 14th annual Community Big Lunch, new benches, a book exchange and plaques honouring Dr Dora Boatemah MBE “the Mother…

On this day 240 years ago at St George's Circus, Mrs Sage ascended in Vicenzo Lunardi's hot air balloon and became the first British woman to fly. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... x.com/DerbyshireDR...

1/3 Jeanie Senior (nee Hughes) b1828 was an energetic social reformer/philanthropist who lived some of her married life at Elm House, Clapham. She had many causes but in particular the progress of young girls when they left the workhouse, leading to her appointment as 1st woman civil servant 1873 …

1/2 Milicent Bagot CBE b1907 York Mansions, Battersea, intelligence officer & expert on soviet spies. First to raise the alarm about Kim Philby and it’s thought John le Carre’s character Connie Sachs was based on Milicent.

#OnThisDay: Olive Morris, Brixton revolutionary activist, born, 1952. Member of the UK Black Panthers, and a founder of Brixton Black Women’s Group wp.me/p74yfw-11k

1/6 The Spong family were a family of social activists. They lived at Wandsworth Common, later Fernlea Road, Balham. There were 5 sisters, this is a portrait of their mother Frances painted by daughter Annie. Frances attended WSPU meetings and was a vegetarian, her daughters followed her example.

Constance Cummings-John b1918 Sierra Leone, politician, educationalist, pioneer of women’s rights, lived for 30 years in Broadwater Road, Tooting. Join a walk this Saturday to celebrate Africa in Tooting ending with the unveiling of a blue plaque to honour Constance. More bit.ly/449oMni

Thought to be the first female contributor to Punch is Helen Hoppner Coode, b1831 Newington/Lambeth who contributed 19 drawings between Nov 1859 and Jan 1861. She was also a writer and a member of the Society of Female Artists.

1/2 Rosa Brett b1829 Kent Road, Camberwell, bap. St George’s Camberwell. Pre-Raphaelite artist, exhibited 9 times at Royal Academy. She was close to but in the shadow of artist brother John who passed off some of Rosa’s work as his own though it’s suggested Rosa preferred to be in the background.