The Women of Fitzrovia Lunchtime Talk Series: "Working Women, 1850-1950"
About this Event
This summer Sue Blundell, with the assistance of Nick Bailey, will be giving a series of three talks on the women – some famous, some anonymous – who have featured in the history of Fitzrovia.
Working Women, 1850 to 1950
Tuesday 28 July 2026, 1pm
Free but ticketed via EventBrite
In the second half of the nineteenth century technological and social changes were responsible for bringing a huge number of women into the labour market. Fitzrovia and its environs provided employment for both working class and middle class women as telephonists, typists, seamstresses, shop assistants, waitresses, and of course health care workers, including Britain’s most famous campaigner for birth control, Marie Stopes.
As well as moral concerns these changes created a need for housing and for places to eat; so women-only hostels and restaurants sprang up in the area. Alongside them there were a number of women entrepreneurs, furnishing the new female denizens of Fitzrovia with everything from divided skirts to ice-creams.
The Fitzrovia Chapel is wheelchair accessible. For accessibility needs, please contact [email protected]
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