A key time in history when Dumfries’ women found their voices to spearhead change, took up careers, helped with the war effort – and so much more – is being explored in an exciting new exhibition.
The Women of Dumfries: Art, Suffrage, Temperance and War exhibition has been launched at Dumfries Museum and will run until January, featuring the time period of c.1850-1950 through objects and lives.
Regarded as a time when more local women entered the public sphere and became engaged with key issues such as the suffrage campaign for women to vote and the Temperance Movement to limit or stop alcohol consumption, the exhibition also shows that some conformed to expectations of their time – while still achieving remarkable things.
