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This is the fourth in a series of posts to celebrate Women’s History Month. We will be featuring amazing, local women who lived locally 100 years ago, campaigning for women’s suffrage and supporting the war effort.  Catherine Courtauld lived in Great Missenden with her sister Sydney Renee, both of whom were committed Suffragists and Unitarians. […]

This is the third in a series of posts to celebrate Women’s History Month. We will be featuring amazing, local women who lived locally 100 years ago, campaigning for women’s suffrage and supporting the war effort.  Margaret Gladstone MacDonald was a celebrated social reformer and suffragist and the wife of the Labour politician James Ramsay […]

Our 2019 events programme is ready to see! Hope to see you at one of our events. 

This is the second in a series of posts to celebrate Women’s History Month. We will be featuring amazing, local women who lived locally 100 years ago, campaigning for women’s suffrage and supporting the war effort.  #2 Eleanora Pemberton (1885-1994) Born in Kensington, Eleanora Pemberton moved to Cokes Lane, Chalfont St Giles, with her family […]

This is the first in a series of posts to celebrate Women’s History Month. We will be featuring amazing, local women who lived locally 100 years ago, campaigning for women’s suffrage and supporting the war effort.  #1 Car (1873-1959) and Josephine Richardson (1869-1945) Sisters Josephine and Car Richardson, of Tithe Barn, Bois Lane, who were also […]

In 2018, as part of Amersham Museum’s People’s Story of Amersham in the 20th Century project, supported by HLF, our Learning Officer Georgina and Education Volunteer Mary were lucky enough to work on an extended project with local special school Stony Dean to support their history topic of dinosaurs, fossils and paleontologists. The school selected 18 girls […]