Exhibition: Joyce Butler: 'The National Woman's MP'

This exhibition celebrates the contributions Joyce Butler (1910-1992) made towards the improvement of women’s lives as Councillor and MP for Wood Green from 1947 to 1979. A pioneering MP in many respects – most notably she instigated what became the Sex Discrimination Act 1975. Butler was deeply immersed in local politics, universally respected for her expertise in housing and local government, and the first Chairman of the newly formed Haringey Council in 1965. A campaigner for peace, consumer rights, and environmental protection, her political concerns remain vital and urgent today.