About Hypatia Trust
We support and promote women’s achievements through research and documentation, exhibition, publication and by providing training and educational activity.
Hypatia Trust Description
We support and promote women’s achievements through research and documentation, exhibition, publication and by providing training and educational activity.
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Thank you to The Edge of the World Bookshop for our Young Women's Book Group choice this month!
Thanks to everyone who responded to our volunteer post, we've been inundated with offers and will aim to get back to everyone this week!
Volunteer Wanted! Suffrage in Cornwall Book - Would you like to help?
Published in 2000, Friends and Visitors: A First History of the Women's Suffrage Movement in Cornwall 1870-1914 remains the only book on the subject 18 years later. To mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, and 90 years since universal suffrage in Britain, the Hypatia Trust has decided to republish the book with an updated introduction.
... We need a volunteer who is a good typist or copy editor to take on the task of re-typing this short tome and also proof-reading it and any updates that will be made. Working with our Heritage Lead, Dr Tehmina Goskar, you can volunteer to do this from the comfort of your home with occasional meets and telephone calls with Tehmina.
If you are interested in this project please contact Tehmina directly on: tehmina@goskar.com.
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Coming up! A poppy-making workshop at Hypatia with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Cornwall & the Penzance Quakers on the 8th September, 1-4pm.
Hypatia's story and legacy discussed on BBC World Service, worth a listen https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csxh9h
More Botanical Drawing Classes coming up this Autumn!
A wonderful afternoon spent celebrating a huge project coming together - the Hypatia Trust's Elizabeth Treffry Collection now has a permanent and happy new home at the Morrab Library! Huge thanks to the two teams, Mark, Lisa and Katie from Morrab and Tehmina, Cora and Maggi from Hypatia for all their hard work. Have a visit, 3000 books and papers to choose from!
A historic day tomorrow!! In 2012 the Hypatia Trust launched a campaign called "A room of our own"-- inspired by Virginia Woolf's seminal feminist essay - to find a new permanent home for the Elizabeth Treffry Collection on Women in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Just over 6 years later this 3000-strong collection of books and papers has finally found a permanent public home at the Morrab Library! Join us for this wonderful day if you can at 2pm, with tea later on.
Amazing amount raised!! Thanks to Elizabeth Harris for organising ✂️
A original painting by Rachel Mia Allen of Porthtowan, worth £475, is up for grabs tomorrow at the Fabric Sale raffle! Tickets are only £1 and a percentage is going towards The Gardeners' House project. Get one while you can!
Lovely Fabric Sale with an Afternoon Tea in Heamoor next week, cushions made in fabrics of your choice for non-sewers! A percentage is going to The Gardeners' House project 🌱
Some interesting thoughts on the BBC History poll of women who've changed the world, published today. Our own Hypatia makes the list at no.36!
https://www.historyextra.com/…/100-wome n-results-what-the-…/
An evening of poetry coming up next month (yes it's September in 3 weeks! Where is the summer going??) with our friends at the Morrab Library, with slots for writers available too 📚
On Monday 30th July, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Penzance grand-daughter, Emily Bronte, a special invitation was extended to primary supporters of our latest project: the reconstruction of the stable block of the historic Morrab House (now Morrab Library) to become The Gardeners' House Environmental Studies Centre. In parallel with the near completion of the new headquarters of the Hypatia Trust in Chapel Street, Penzance, this special event marks the beginning of a series of opening celebrations devoted to establishing new objectives in the life of the Trust and its many friends. Visitors from as far afield as Massachsetts, USA, Spain, Cambridge, Brighton and elsewhere were in attendance - and all readers of the Bronte literature & legends. Thank you all!
Some amazing local workshops exploring natural pigment painting and botanical fabric dyeing which will help support The Gardeners' House, from artist Francesca Owen. Info below!
Due to popular demand! Hypatia is planning to launch a second Book Club, which will have its initial meeting on the 30th August at 7pm. Open to all ages - If you're interested in signing up, contact maggilivingstone@yahoo.co.uk so we can get an idea of numbers.
Following on from our post about Hypatia - another fascinating historical female academic who has had a lasting influence on history...
The eldest of seven children, Anna Komnene was not only a Byzantine princess but a scholar, physician, hospital director, and historian. Born in 1083 in Constantinople (now Istanbul), she was the daughter of the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, and was highly educated in subjects that included astronomy, medicine, history, military affairs, geogra...
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