Our Four Remarkable Women (2024/25)
This fascinating exhibition highlighted how each of our four remarkable women in her own way changed lives both in Churchill and the wider world.
A sixteenth-century noblewoman
Elizabeth Bourne (1549-1599)
Who controversially petitioned for divorce from her philandering husband and left letters which are now considered a most significant and valuable historical source of early modern literature and inform a greater understanding of women’s negotiations for legal autonomy in the sixteenth century.
A seventeenth-century eccentric
Anne Walter (Unknown – 1707)
Who lived in fear of being murdered but left a trust which is still providing grants for education purposes.
A nineteenth-century grocer
Emily Jennings (1814-1885)
Whose legacy launched a village charity.
A twentieth-century High Sheriff
Judy Hutchinson (1916-1989)
Whose secret war work has never been fully acknowledged.
The photograph on this poster is of Judy Hutchinson but the other images merely represent women of the period.