A not-for-profit group is on the hunt on to find women who changed the face of east London over the past 100 years.

Walthamstow-based Share UK has started collating research for the new heritage project, that will attempt to shine a spotlight on the unsung heroes of female activists in Waltham Forest, Hackney, and Tower Hamlets, through a digital app.

Focusing on the themes of gender violence, the labour movement, social unrest and civil disobedience, archives and oral interviews will be used to create the walking tour app.

Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the app will take users around sites of protest and activism in the three London boroughs, where they will be able to hear the stories of women before them who helped improve the lives of thousands.

Share UK founder and project manager for 'Women Activists of East London', Esther Freeman, said: "Too often women are eclipsed by their male counterparts.

"For example, most know William Morris was a radical socialist, whose ideas about the environment were way ahead of their time.

"However his wife Jane is normally described only as Rossetti’s muse and mistress when, in fact she was an astute political thinker, and advocate of Irish home rule.

"East London has long been a hotbed of activism, yet the part women played is often sidelined.

"And despite the area having huge ethnic diversity, stories about women of colour are almost non-existent.

"Yet many of these women have been relentless in their dedication, often risking their liberty, and sometimes their lives.

It is due to be completed by June 2016 and follows on from their latest project on Polish migrants in Waltham Forest.

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