Women’s Pioneer Housing (WPH) was established in 1920 by a group of suffrage and housing campaigners led by Anglo-Irish suffragist Etheldred Browning. Its mission was:

to cater to the housing requirements of professional and other women of moderate means who require distinctive individual homes at moderate rents

To celebrate one hundred years of providing homes for women in London, WPH set up a National Lottery Heritage Fund project to uncover its rich history. Using WPH’s incredible archive of original documents and a dedicated team of volunteer researchers, ‘Pioneering Courage: Housing and the Working Woman, 1919 – 1939’ explores the links between housing, feminism and the fight for women to gain independence after winning the vote. It also tells the inspiring stories of WPH’s pioneering founders and fascinating mix of early tenants.