Working for Equality: The Fight for Fair Pay and Equal Rights

This project explores changing ideas about the ‘proper place’ for a woman and celebrated the economic, cultural, and political contribution of women factory workers.

With the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, in 2018-19 we created a mobile exhibition, put on a range of accessible public events, ran workshops with local schools, and collected oral histories from women who were working in factories in Barking & Dagenham between WWII and the Ford Strikes in 1968. Volunteers from the local area helped to shape the exhibition and received training in oral history, archive research, and heritage interpretation skills.

The exhibition has been hosted in different venues in Barking & Dagenham, including summer festivals, Barking Learning Centre and Dagenham Library. If you’d like to host it at your venue please contact get in touch.

Developed and delivered in partnership with Eastside Community Heritage, and funded by Heritage Lottery Fund.