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Bradford Civic Society unveiled the plaque to Florence Moser (1856-1921) on International Women's Day yesterday. Alan Hall from the City Society writes: “'We take for granted that all girls must go out into the world as domestic servants, and again and again the truth has to be faced that all girls are not intended by nature to be domestic servants any more than all girls are fitted to be teachers or nurses'. These words by Florence Moser, concerning the lack of career opportunities for women at the turn of the 20th century, show clearly that she was an early feminist, though she woul...

TODAY it’s a nondescript convenience store in a northern town. But above it is a little room where two sisters mapped out a campaign that was to change the lives of millions of women in the UK. I’ve recently learned about two remarkable Yorkshire women with significant legacies. One was Florence White, who grew up in a Bradford back-to-back, was working in a mill aged 12 - and became the “champion of Britain’s spinsters”. Like many women born in the late 1800s, she lost her fiance in the war that wiped out almost a generation of young men. Instead of accepting her fate as one of...

Florence Moser was a childcare pioneer. Picture: Bradford Museums and Galleries A WOMAN who provided childcare for working mothers in Victorian Bradford, in premises known as “The Nest”, is to have a blue plaque in her honour. Florence Moser, who became a pioneer in nursery care and early years education, is one of four Bradford women honoured in Bradford Civic Society’s blue plaque scheme addressing an historic gender inbalance of memorials in the city. Florence's plaque will be installed by the society on International Women’s Day next week. A ‘forgotten philanthropist’,...