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Celebrating Women of the Inland Waterways

Kate Saffin March 27, 2025
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March is the month when we celebrate International Women’s Day all over the world. We decided to have International Women’s Week so earlier in the month posted for 7 days on Facebook to celebrate some of the many women who made the canals the incredible place they are now. International Women’s Day (IWD) has been around since 1911, celebrating women’s achievements and promoting equality. Since then women have worked or volunteered on the canals on a par with men but […]

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Did you know? Five facts we learned from I Dig Canals Birmingham

Heather Wastie June 24, 2022
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We’ve just finished our I Dig Canals Birmingham project, funded by the John Feeney Charitable Trust. This project enabled us to interview and record stories from eight women about Birmingham’s canal heritage. We’re so grateful to everyone who spoke to us. We’re sharing some of the stories collected on this online gallery, and in a series of six podcasts, which you can find on our Soundcloud, but as we learned so very much, here are five facts we found out […]

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Five Quick-fire Questions for Heather Wastie

Alarum March 8, 2021
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Today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day and, rather appropriately, marks the 5th anniversary of Heather and Kate’s first phone conversation. The moment they decided that, yes, Heather’s work Idle Women and Judies and Kate’s solo play Isobel’s War would make a rather good double bill and it might be fun to take the show on tour… The fact that Kate had been contemplating a boat trip along the very canal that goes through the village where Heather lives – […]

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