In this online event held by the Tower Hamlets Archives Library, Sam Johnson will discuss how she discovered the involvement of her great-grandmother Sarah Chapman, one of the workers at the Bryant and May Match Factory and a resident of Stepney who was one of the key members of the Matchgirl strikes. This is an online event and you can register via the Eventbrite link.

The Match Girls Strike of 1888 brought the horrific conditions the women and girls working in a match factory in Bow to national attention, in one of the first hallmark wins for workers’ rights in the UK.