International Women's Day at STH: History Tour

When: March 8, 2025

Where: London, United Kingdom

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Join us at Shoreditch Town Hall for an International Women's Day history tour around our Grade II Listed building, featuring the stories of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst, women’s rights advocate Helen Taylor, Shoreditch's first woman mayor Henrietta Girling OBE and more.

Exploring spaces that are never usually open to the public, you will learn about how the use of the space developed over the years from a municipal building that opened in 1866, holding the inquest into the murder of Jack the Ripper’s last victim Mary Kelly in 1888, to becoming one of the East End's premiere boxing venues in the 60s, hosting colourful trance nights in the 1990s with the now infamous Whirl-Y-Gig, to the popular, women-led arts venue it is today with a programme of spectacular theatre, star-studded comedy, boisterous drag queens and more.

You'll find out about the architecture and design of our building, and get the opportunity to see your favourite film and TV locations in the flesh - our spaces were recently featured in Baby Reindeer and A Quiet Place: Day One.

The tour will be led by our very own Cultural Programme Manager, Susannah Bramwell. An east London native, Susannah is an arts producer working across live performance, events, and participatory projects, with a particular passion for socially driven, interdisciplinary, and accessible programmes. While at the University of Exeter, she took most interest in researching women's history, which included a research website project on “difficult” Women in Theatre and their strategies of resistance, and her dissertation on early modern representations of women who killed their husbands in cheap print. Since her degree, she has continued to take great interest in women's history, and is excited to lead this tour and share the stories of the brilliant women of STH!

Tickets just £2