BRiMMiN Women in Brum - a celebration of the Women of Birmingham

Who really cares about Samantha Brick’s vain article in the Daily Mail earlier this week? Not me.  In fact I was doing really well at avoiding the whole sorry affair of Samantha and her over-inflated sense of self importance.  Until somebody sent me a tweet that claimed her a brummie. A quick bit of

Miss Sarah WEBB Chief Executive, Chartered Institute of Housing. For services to the Housing Sector. (Birmingham, West Midlands) Rate this: Like this:Be the first to like this post.

It was a rare thing in 1883 to find women teaching in schools never mind working in such a senior role as leading one. So it is appropriate for us to give all those women who did that the hat tip on this site.  More precisely, this is a list of the 25 women who [...]

It occurred to me it might be interesting to look at which women have represented the people of Birmingham in Parliament.  Edith Wills was the first woman MP in the city serving from 5 July 1945.  It had always seemed to me that we had been well represented with a high proportion of our MPs [...]

So New Year’s Eve arrives and so too the usual honours.  Overall 43% this year have gone to women according to Direct Gov.  S0 what of the Brimmin?  Well a Dame, a CBE, OBE and 2 MBEs compared with 5 MBEs last year.  An OBE also went to a male teacher at Swanshurst School. Frankly [...]

I had a visitor to the brimmin site referred from another yesterday. Not unusual, but exciting. The site is seeking to encourage brummie women to pull together a Women’s festival in March to coincide with International Women’s Day. Fitting as it’s 25 years since my good friend Emma co-ordinated the

So it’s the Queen’s Birthday.  Sitting here watching the Trooping of the Colour, gives me time to search for all the women from Birmingham on her honours list. From what I have gleaned there are eight this year, which is quite a few.  Let’s take a look: Rosie AULD CBE For services to Healthcare. Her

The Birmingham Mail writer, Brian Halford, has put together a blog which follows the Warwickshire County Cricket Club 100 years ago, in the 1911 season, when they won the championship for the first time.  Hat-tip to Steve Nicholls for tweeting about it).  A fascinating read, if you are interested in

There is a lot of recorded information online about the high profile women of the Suffragette Movement in the UK and Birmingham. Bertha was clearly one of the more active campaigners based in Birmingham. She had been involved in window smashing campaigns in London prior to her best known act, when o