Formed in 1984 by Mark Ashton and his friend Mike Jackson, this group was only wound down in 2015. The London group used the bookshop Gay's the Word as their HQ. The largest fund-raising event was the 1984 "Pits and Perverts" benefit concert, in the Electric Ballroom in Camden Town.
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Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
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Mark Ashton
The crowd funded plaque was unveiled on 19 May 2017, Ashton's 57th birthday. ...
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Helena Swanwick
Feminist and pacifist. NUWSS, editor of Common Cause, internationalist, pacifist. Mainly metropolitan based. Born in Munich as Helena Maria Lucy Sickert, sister to Walter Sickert, and granddaughte...
1 memorial
Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda
The Women's Social and Political Union, secretary of Newport branch, founder of Time and Tide and the Six Point Group. Institute of Directors' first female president in 1926. Born as Margaret Haig...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Boo Armstrong
Born as Rachel Armstrong she grew up in Ealing. As an adult lived in Camden - the photo shows her on her canal boat Moonshine on which she lived in the Cumberland Basin from 1999. The Picture sourc...
1 memorial
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Intellectual, political leader, activist and writer. Born Suffolk and brought up at Snape where her family owned the maltings. Pioneer of the women's suffrage movement but she advocated a non-viole...
6 memorials
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