Birmingham Women’s Suffrage Society – People's Heritage Co-operative

Hear Here Hilda Burkitt

Hilda Burkitt (19 July 1876 – 7 March 1955), our champion for Human Rights. Hilda told the Home Office she

Birmingham suffragette Bertha Ryland inspired women taking part in Hear Here Her story. Born in Edgbaston in 1882, a stone’s

Violence against women stops us all being free and living the lives we choose. We began 16 days of activism

In June 1916, as the first world war intensified across the world, members of Birmingham Women’s Suffrage Society (BWSS), began