Events

person giving gallery talk
Friday 6 March 2026, 2.30pm to 3.30pm

Free, all welcome. Booking recommended.

As 'The National Woman's MP', explore Joyce Butler's fight to ensure 'housewives' campaigns and voices were considered of national interest.

Bedwell's signature on manuscript showing the word Tottenham
Monday 9 March 2026, 12.15pm to 1.15pm

Free, all welcome. Booking required.

Doors open at 12 noon for 12.15pm start.

A chance to see the current exhibition about Bedwell, as well as a visit to All Hallows Church after the talk.

Join the curators of Bruce Castle Museum & Archive’s current exhibition, Getting the Measure of William Bedwell, in conversation with Alastair Hamilton and Samantha Brown.

person in archive search room
Friday 13 March 2026, 2.30pm to 3.30pm

Free, all welcome. Booking recommended.

Hear and see letters written from women to Joyce Butler, campaigning to introduce legislation against sex discrimination in women's lives.

Wood Green MP Joyce Butler's campaign to introduce legislation against sex discrimination in education and employment attracted widespread public interest. The letters she received from women across the country provide an exciting window into women's working and family lives during a period of transformational upheaval.

photo of brook
Saturday 14 March 2026, 3.00pm to 4.30pm

A special artist talk to mark International Day of Action for Rivers.

Free, all welcome. Booking required.

Ben Nathan shares the story behind his year-long investigation into Bounds Green Brook – drawing on archival research, community water testing, and the connections forged with fellow river action groups.

Part map-making, part citizen science, part collective memory: a talk about making the invisible visible.

collage of archive material along with portrait of academic
Thursday 19 March 2026, 7.30pm to 9.00pm

Free, all welcome. Booking essential.

This Women's History Month, come along to Bruce Castle Museum and Archive for an evening talk by Dr. Natalie Thomlinson (University of Reading) and panel discussion with the former organisers of the Haringey Women's Employment Project - Carmelita Kadeena-Whyte, Ursula Murray, and Joan Neary.

closeup of blue and white artwork
Sunday 29 March 2026, 2.30pm to 3.30pm

Free, all welcome. Booking recommended.

Join Tottenham artist Mary Yacoob for a gallery talk about her artworks in the current exhibition ‘Getting the Measure of William Bedwell: Maths, Measurement and the Arabic World’.