From the Chartist movement and winning the vote to the modern women’s movement, they laid the basis for the rights that we enjoy (and sometimes take for granted) today. It will be delivered by Heather Hughes of the Reimagining Lincolnshire project.

Herself an anti-apartheid campaigner in South Africa until the 1990s, she was one of a small group of women who resuscitated South African Women’s Day, after it had been suppressed by the apartheid authorities for over two decades. She has worked on women’s and human rights issues alongside other prominent campaigners such as Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge and Ela Gandhi, the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, who holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Lincoln.

Reimagining Lincolnshire is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, with delivery support from Threshold.