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The '''Purple Plaques''' ('''Placiau Porffor''') scheme in ], UK aims to install plaques on buildings to mark the lives of women who have had a significant and long-lasting impact associated with Wales. The '''Purple Plaques''' ({{langx|cy|Placiau Porffor}}) scheme in ], UK aims to install plaques on buildings to increase recognition of the lives of women who have had a significant and long-lasting impact associated with Wales.


The scheme was initiated by several members of the ]. The purple colour was chosen because of its association with the women's suffrage movement. The scheme was initially organised in partnership with the gender equality charity ] and subsequently became an independent charity.<ref name="Chwarae Teg -about Purple Plaques" /> The scheme was initiated by several members of the ], led by ], Member of the ].<ref name="WesternMail2021">{{cite news |last1=Cavill |first1=Nancy |title=The war reporter and her 'retreat' in Wales; Nancy Cavill uncovers the little-known links between an American war correspondent and novelist and Wales - as a Purple Plaque is unveiled in her memory at her former home in Monmouthshire... pages 12 - 14|work=The Western Mail |date=3 July 2021}}</ref> The purple colour was chosen because of its association with the women's suffrage movement. The scheme was initially organised in partnership with the gender equality charity ], (Fair Play) and subsequently became an independent charity.<ref name="Chwarae Teg -about Purple Plaques" />


It was launched on 8 March 2017 (]) with the aim of installing the first plaque on the ] building to commemorate ]. The plaques are glazed purple ceramic with white lettering. Subsequently, one or two plaques have been installed each year.<ref name="Mosalski2017">{{cite news |last1=Mosalski |first1=Ruth |title=Purple plaques bid is launched to mark women's contribution to Welsh life |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/purple-plaques-bid-launched-mark-12707091 |access-date=2 July 2021 |work=Wales Online |date=8 March 2017}}</ref> It was launched on 8 March 2017 (]) with the aim of installing the first plaque on the ] building to commemorate ]. The plaques are glazed purple ceramic with white lettering. Subsequently, one to three plaques have been installed each year.<ref name="Mosalski2017">{{cite news |last1=Mosalski |first1=Ruth |title=Purple plaques bid is launched to mark women's contribution to Welsh life |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/purple-plaques-bid-launched-mark-12707091 |access-date=2 July 2021 |work=Wales Online |date=8 March 2017}}</ref>


Criteria for a plaque include that the person must be a deceased woman with strong links to Wales, and that she must have made a remarkable contribution in Wales or beyond. The extent of her impact on women, including as a role model, will also be considered, as well as whether she has already been commemorated.<ref name="purple plaques criteria">{{cite web |title=Who are Purple Plaques for? Guidelines for proposing a Purple Plaque |url=https://purpleplaques.wales/propose-a-plaque/ |website=Purple plaques |access-date=3 July 2021}}</ref> In addition to those who are already well known but may not yet be commemorated publically, the scheme especially aims to recognise women who have previously not been recognised.<ref name="Chwarae Teg -about Purple Plaques">{{cite web |title=About Purple Plaques |url=https://chwaraeteg.com/projects/purple-plaques/ |website=Chwarae Teg |access-date=3 July 2021}}</ref> Practical considerations such as a need for planning permission will also be considered. Criteria for a plaque include that the person must be a deceased woman with strong links to Wales, and that she must have made a remarkable contribution in Wales or beyond. The extent of her impact on women, including as a role model, will also be considered, as well as whether she has already been commemorated.<ref name="purple plaques criteria">{{cite web |title=Who are Purple Plaques for? Guidelines for proposing a Purple Plaque |url=https://purpleplaques.wales/propose-a-plaque/ |website=Purple plaques |access-date=3 July 2021}}</ref><ref name="Rieder2019">{{cite news |last1=Rieder |first1=Duncan |title=Chwarae Teg calls for Purple Plaques to honour remarkable women in North Wales for International Day of the Girl |url=https://www.denbighshirefreepress.co.uk/news/17602317.chwarae-teg-calls-purple-plaques-honour-remarkable-women-north-wales-international-day-girl/ |access-date=3 July 2021 |work=Denbighshire Free Press |date=27 April 2019}}</ref> In addition to those who are already well known but may not yet be commemorated publicly, the scheme especially aims to recognise women who have previously not been recognised.<ref name="Chwarae Teg -about Purple Plaques">{{cite web |title=About Purple Plaques |url=https://chwaraeteg.com/projects/purple-plaques/ |website=Chwarae Teg |access-date=3 July 2021}}</ref> Practical considerations such as a need for planning permission will also be considered.


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==Plaques installed== ==Plaques installed==
Purple plaques have been installed<ref name="PP-stories">{{cite web |title=Purple plaque stories |url=https://purpleplaques.wales/purple-plaque-stories/ |website=Purple plaques |access-date=2 July 2021}}</ref> to mark the following: As of September 2024, 18 <!--change this when adding more names-->purple plaques have been installed<ref name="PP-stories">{{cite web |title=Purple plaque stories |url=https://purpleplaques.wales/purple-plaque-stories/ |website=Purple plaques |access-date=2 July 2021}}</ref> to mark the following:
* ], installed on Senedd building 2018. One of the architects of devolution for Wales; Director and founder of ]; activist for social and gender equality.<ref>{{cite web |title=Val Feld |url=https://www.100welshwomen.wales/100-women/val_feld/ |website=100+ Welsh Women |access-date=3 July 2021}}</ref> * ], installed on Senedd building 2018. One of the architects of devolution for Wales; Director and founder of ]; activist for social and gender equality.<ref>{{cite web |title=Val Feld |url=https://www.100welshwomen.wales/100-women/val_feld/ |website=100+ Welsh Women |access-date=3 July 2021}}</ref>
* ], installed on ] Central Library 2019. Academic specialising in women’s history and feminism; founded Centre for Gender Studies in Wales at ].<ref name="PP-stories" /> * ], installed on ] Central Library 2019. Academic specialising in women’s history and feminism; founded Centre for Gender Studies in Wales at ].<ref name="PP-stories" />
* ], installed on her family's home in ] 2019. First woman MP for a Welsh constituency.<ref name="PP-stories" /> * ], installed on her family's home in ] 2019. First woman MP for a Welsh constituency.<ref name="PP-stories" />
* ], installed on her family's take-away in ] 2020. Champion of isolated Chinese people in south Wales.<ref name="AngelaKwok-purpleplaque">{{cite web |title=Chinese community champion honoured with purple plaque in Cardiff |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51225095 |website=BBC News |access-date=3 July 2021}}</ref> * ], installed on her family's take-away in ] 2020. Champion of isolated Chinese people in south Wales.<ref name="AngelaKwok-purpleplaque">{{cite news |title=Chinese community champion honoured with purple plaque in Cardiff |work=BBC News |date=24 January 2020 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-51225095 |access-date=3 July 2021}}</ref>
* ], installed on the Welfare Hall, ] 2020. Peace campaigner.<ref name="PP-stories" /> * ], installed on the Miners Welfare Hall, ] 2020. Peace campaigner and political activist.<ref name="PP-stories" />
* ], installed on her retirement cottage in ] 2021. American war correspondent, novelist, travel writer, and journalist.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-07-02|title=Reporter Martha Gellhorn honoured with purple plaque|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-57684212|access-date=2021-07-02}}</ref> * ], installed on her retirement cottage in ] 2021. American war correspondent, novelist, travel writer, and journalist.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-07-02|title=Reporter Martha Gellhorn honoured with purple plaque|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-57684212|access-date=2021-07-02}}</ref>
* ], installed on her family home in Bangor 2021. Suffragist and politician.<ref name="HistoryPoints">{{cite web |title=Former home of suffragist Charlotte Price White, Bangor |url=https://historypoints.org/index.php?page=former-home-of-suffragist-charlotte-price-white-bangor |website=HistoryPoints |access-date=5 July 2021}}</ref>
* ], installed on a cow byre at her home in ], Ceredigion, 2021. Pioneering woman organic farmer and entrepreneur.<ref name="BBC-2021">{{cite news |title=Rachel's Dairy founder honoured with purple plaque |work=BBC News |date=24 September 2021 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58667007 |access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref>
* ] on ] in June 2022. She was one of the first three women to represent Wales in the UK Parliament, and indeed Wales's only female MP for ten years.<ref>{{cite news |title=Purple plaque to honour one of the first female MPs for Wales to unveiled in Flint today |url=https://www.deeside.com/plaque-to-honour-woman-one-of-the-first-female-mps-for-wales-to-unveiled-in-flint-today/ |access-date=13 June 2022 |work=Deeside.com |date=10 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* ] in 2022 in Abertillery; international brigader, trade unionist and nurse.<ref name="PP-stories" />
* ] on 3 March 2023 at her birthplace in Brecon; campaigner, social reformer and the first female doctor to be registered in ].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-03-03 |title=Purple plaque for first Brit woman to get medical degree |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-64842582 |access-date=2023-03-04}}</ref>
* ], installed in the Wales Millennium Centre on 24 March 2023 in her home town of Cardiff: singer and black rights activist.<ref name="Purple Plaque 12 in 2023">{{cite web |title=Patti Flynn |url=http://purpleplaques.wales/patti-flynn/ |website=Placiau Porrfor/Purple Plaques |access-date=12 October 2023}}</ref>
* ], councillor and campaigner.<ref name="PP-2023">{{cite web |title=Rose Davies (1882 – 1958) |url=http://purpleplaques.wales/purple-plaque-stories/rose-davies-1882-1958/ |website=Placiau Porffor/Purple Plaques |access-date=12 October 2023}}</ref><ref name="Museum2023">{{cite web |title=Rose Davies: local socialist feminist honoured with a Purple Plaque at Cynon Valley Museum |url=https://cynonvalleymuseum.wales/2023/05/12/rose-davies-local-socialist-feminist-honoured-with-a-purple-plaque-at-cynon-valley-museum/ |website=Amgueddfa Cwm Cynon/Cynon Valley Museum |date=12 May 2023 |access-date=12 October 2023}}</ref>
*] was a peace campaigner.<ref name="Elis2023">{{cite web |last1=Elis |first1=Meg |title=Annie Jane Hughes Griffiths (1873 - 1942) |url=https://biography.wales/article/s14-ELLI-JAN-1873#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&manifest=https%3A%2F%2Fdamsssl.llgc.org.uk%2Fiiif%2F2.0%2F5184895%2Fmanifest.json&xywh=208%2C377%2C1034%2C850 |website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography/Y Bwygraffiadur Cymreig |access-date=26 June 2024}}</ref>
* ] helped prevent an invasion of Britain by French troops at Fishguard in the 18th century.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Morris |first=Steven |date=2024-02-24 |title=Welsh woman 'who took on French invaders' with pitchfork wins recognition |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/24/welsh-woman-who-took-on-french-invaders-with-pitchfork-wins-recognition |access-date=2024-02-24 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
*] was a poet and activist in the deaf community.<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Bristol Graduate School of Education|url=http://www.bris.ac.uk/education/research/sites/micsl/poem-repository/poems3/|accessdate=7 August 2011}}</ref>
*] was a novelist who was awarded the ] in 1970.<ref name="Morris2024">{{cite news |last1=Morris |first1=Steven |title=Bernice Rubens, first woman to win Booker, honoured with Cardiff plaque |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jun/21/bernice-rubens-first-woman-win-booker-prize-cardiff-plaque |access-date=26 June 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=21 June 2024}}</ref>
*], a political activist, peace campaigner, writer and feminist.<ref name="Pallister_purple-plaque-2024">{{cite web |title=Minnie Pallister (1885 – 1960) |url=https://purpleplaques.wales/purple-plaque-stories/minnie-pallister-1885-1960/ |website=Purple Plaques |access-date=27 December 2024}}</ref>


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Welsh commemoration scheme

The Purple Plaques (Welsh: Placiau Porffor) scheme in Wales, UK aims to install plaques on buildings to increase recognition of the lives of women who have had a significant and long-lasting impact associated with Wales.

The scheme was initiated by several members of the National Assembly for Wales, led by Julie Morgan, Member of the Senedd for Cardiff North. The purple colour was chosen because of its association with the women's suffrage movement. The scheme was initially organised in partnership with the gender equality charity Chwarae Teg, (Fair Play) and subsequently became an independent charity.

It was launched on 8 March 2017 (International Women's Day) with the aim of installing the first plaque on the Senedd building to commemorate Val Feld. The plaques are glazed purple ceramic with white lettering. Subsequently, one to three plaques have been installed each year.

Criteria for a plaque include that the person must be a deceased woman with strong links to Wales, and that she must have made a remarkable contribution in Wales or beyond. The extent of her impact on women, including as a role model, will also be considered, as well as whether she has already been commemorated. In addition to those who are already well known but may not yet be commemorated publicly, the scheme especially aims to recognise women who have previously not been recognised. Practical considerations such as a need for planning permission will also be considered.

Val Feld plaque at The Senedd

Plaques installed

As of September 2024, 18 purple plaques have been installed to mark the following:

References

  1. Cavill, Nancy (3 July 2021). "The war reporter and her 'retreat' in Wales; Nancy Cavill uncovers the little-known links between an American war correspondent and novelist and Wales - as a Purple Plaque is unveiled in her memory at her former home in Monmouthshire... pages 12 - 14". The Western Mail.
  2. ^ "About Purple Plaques". Chwarae Teg. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  3. Mosalski, Ruth (8 March 2017). "Purple plaques bid is launched to mark women's contribution to Welsh life". Wales Online. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  4. "Who are Purple Plaques for? Guidelines for proposing a Purple Plaque". Purple plaques. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  5. Rieder, Duncan (27 April 2019). "Chwarae Teg calls for Purple Plaques to honour remarkable women in North Wales for International Day of the Girl". Denbighshire Free Press. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Purple plaque stories". Purple plaques. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
  7. "Val Feld". 100+ Welsh Women. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  8. "Chinese community champion honoured with purple plaque in Cardiff". BBC News. 24 January 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  9. "Reporter Martha Gellhorn honoured with purple plaque". BBC News. 2021-07-02. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  10. "Former home of suffragist Charlotte Price White, Bangor". HistoryPoints. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  11. "Rachel's Dairy founder honoured with purple plaque". BBC News. 24 September 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  12. "Purple plaque to honour one of the first female MPs for Wales to unveiled in Flint today". Deeside.com. 10 June 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  13. "Purple plaque for first Brit woman to get medical degree". BBC News. 2023-03-03. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  14. "Patti Flynn". Placiau Porrfor/Purple Plaques. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  15. "Rose Davies (1882 – 1958)". Placiau Porffor/Purple Plaques. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  16. "Rose Davies: local socialist feminist honoured with a Purple Plaque at Cynon Valley Museum". Amgueddfa Cwm Cynon/Cynon Valley Museum. 12 May 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
  17. Elis, Meg. "Annie Jane Hughes Griffiths (1873 - 1942)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography/Y Bwygraffiadur Cymreig. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  18. Morris, Steven (2024-02-24). "Welsh woman 'who took on French invaders' with pitchfork wins recognition". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-02-24.
  19. "University of Bristol Graduate School of Education". Retrieved 7 August 2011.
  20. Morris, Steven (21 June 2024). "Bernice Rubens, first woman to win Booker, honoured with Cardiff plaque". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  21. "Minnie Pallister (1885 – 1960)". Purple Plaques. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
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