HerStory: The Women

The Women of HerStory

Below is a random selection of the women in HerStory. You can click on any these people to see their full biography and more details, refresh the page for a new random selection or look for someone using the search box at the top of each page.

You can find everyone, in list form, here.

Amy Wares

Amy is a volunteer at Rye Heritage Centre

Heritage
Lorna Hall

Lorna is Co-Creator of the Rye Flower & Veg Show and used to run Rye in Bloom

Civic and Volunteering Business Gardening and Horticulture
Jo Kirkham

Jo is Director of Rye Castle Museum. "When I was at university...we went on a field trip to Ireland..to Galway and out into the countryside to do questionnaires. The people in these country areas would not speak to us....The women in the group.... We should be at home having babies. We should NOT be there." Jo Kirkham speaking about a geography field trip to Ireland in 1958 when she was a university student.

Teaching Museums, Art Galleries Education Heritage
Bellringer

Bellringer at St Mary's Church

Civic and Volunteering
Anne Wood

Anne is a freeman of Rye and Former Church Warden at St. Mary's Church

Civic and Volunteering
Sheila Miller

Sheila Miller is long retired and has had a variety of jobs over her long life. “We used to go to Peasmarsh and often used to stay up there in the hoppers huts because there were huts provided. You used to have your mattress up there and bring all household goods and have a fire. We’d have stews. My mother used to cook sausage rolls and buns. We probably used to eat more than she earned."

Hop-Picking Meat, Fishing and Horticulture Shrimping Laundries Factory Work
Wendy Goodsell

Wendy is a Community Scientist. "My pride and satisfaction comes from my voluntary work as a Community Scientist with Strandliners, a unique local marine litter survery group in East Sussex. We work closely the Marine Conservation Society, Break Free from Plastic, and Surfers Against Sewage surveying the coastline from Dungeness to the Cuckmere and the River Rother from the river mouth at Camber/Rye and a mile inland to Scot's Float. It's the life in your years and not the years in your life that matter. I am a firm believer in Hold the Vision, Trust the Process!"

Civic and Volunteering Conservation & the Environment
Gail Dodson

Gail was an Information Assistant at Rye Town Hall

Civic and Volunteering Heritage
Jamyma-May Hanson

Jamyma is a Graduate of the Wurlitzer Academy, Rye

Performing Arts
Flora Williams

Flora works at Sweet Williams Fruit and Veg, Rye

Shopwork Retail