Celebrating the women chainmakers who downed their hammers and stood up for their right to earn a living wage.

This year the Women Chainmakers’ Festival, to be held on 2 July, will again take place on Cradley Heath, in the West Midlands.

The first trade festival dedicated to female trade unionists and has been running for over a decade, it was inspired by the 1910 struggle for a minimum wage for the mostly female chainmakers of Cradley Heath which was led by Mary Macarthur.