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City of London School for Girls
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London EC2Y 8BB
City led a Consortium project entitled Changing Lives 1 which aimed to raise aspirations and promote the self-esteem of young women by undertaking research into the lives and achievements of women in recent and previous decades. Students from the Consortium schools, partnered with The Women’s Library, and the London Metropolitan University, to investigate the history of their school, utilising school and public archives, and collecting testimonies from former pupils. Students also researched their own genealogy and analysed their families to uncover trends. The schools presented the outcomes of their students’ work at a Conference (March 2006).
The second phase of the Changing Lives project (
Changing Lives 2
) produced a 30-minute documentary showing a history of campaigns led by inspirational women. The list of women covers a wide section of recent history; starting in the Nineteenth Century with social reformer Josephine Butler and continuing to the present day with the very active group Southall Black Sisters who campaign against domestic violence. The film was screened at the Women Leading Global Change conference (October 2007) and is now an educational resource for schools. The purpose of the film was to:
The highly-commended project was a winner of a Landmark Archive Award, presented at a prestigious event (November 2006). The Award celebrated the creative use of archives and recognised work that will make a difference for future historians. Clearly, looking at history in this way opens up new ideas and possibilities and can be the means by which society and attitudes are changed.
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Inspire change and show that progress comes through determination;
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Inspire women to work to help other women and to never give up;
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Explain how changes happened in the past but also show why those changes are important today; andOutline what still needs to be changed and how each student can enable it to happen.