# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Matchwomen's Strike
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Following the success of last year’s programme of online courses, we will be running trade union and working-class history series.

This year’s course focuses specifically on the role played by women in trade union and working class history.

This session will be tutored by Dr Louise Raw, a writer, activist and historian, with a background in the union movement.  

Her 20 years of work on bringing the true significance of the Bryant & May Matchwomen’s Strike of 1888 to public awareness, began on a trade union history course. Despite having left school at 15, her determination to bring this vital story of a worker’s victory to light led to her undertaking an MA and PhD.  

Her book Striking a Light, the only single study on the Matchwomen, is in its fifth reprint.   

She is a regular history contributor on BBC Radio London for the Robert Elms’ and Eddie Nestor’ shows.  

She has appeared on the BBC’s The Victorian Slum, for which she was a historical adviser, Who Do You Think You Are, and Channel 4’s The Worst Jobs in History.  

She also writes on contemporary politics.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/loughborough/the-matchwomens-strike/200028764843437
- **Event Categories**: workshops, art, literary-art, virtual
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 19

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://gftuet.org.uk/courses/trade-union-and-working-class-history?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=loughborough-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Loughborough
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, 88 Wood Lane, Loughborough, LE12 8DB, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: GFTU Educational Trust (https://allevents.in/org/gftu-educational-trust/23423034)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 27 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Online event, 88 Wood Lane, Loughborough, LE12 8DB, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** GFTU Educational Trust
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops, art, literary-art, virtual
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The Matchwomen's Strike ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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