Until June 2026
This exhibition has been curated in partnership with Dr Lyndsey Jenkins, Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in History, Mansfield College, University of Oxford as part of an AHRC funded heritage project 'The National Woman’s MP: Joyce Butler, women's rights and women's liberation from the 1950s to the 1970s’.
It celebrates the contributions Joyce Butler (1910-1992) made towards the improvement of women’s lives as Councillor and MP for Wood Green from 1947 to 1979. She was a pioneering MP in many respects; most notably she instigated what became the Sex Discrimination Act 1975. Butler was also deeply immersed in local politics, universally respected for her expertise in housing and local government, and the first Chairman of the newly formed Haringey Council in 1965. A campaigner for peace, consumer rights, and environmental protection, her political concerns remain vital and urgent today.
Location: Townsend Gallery
A stunning eighteenth century room restored to its original layout and named in memory of Henrietta and James Townsend, residents of Bruce Castle in the mid 1700s.
