Dream Time Creative: Forgotten Women of Wakefield

This week we are joined by Sarah Cobham, CEO of Dream Time Creative, a place-based creative organisation set up with the aim to help other women feel empowered, enabled and emboldened in their creative and cultural voices.

Dream Time Creative won the 2023 Community Archive and Heritage Award with their project 'Forgotten Women of Wakefield' which aimed to redressed the imbalance in blue plaques in the town. 'No women of note' is what they were told, tune in to hear just how wrong they were. 

CW: There is mention of pregnancy loss in this episode

Watch Dream Time Creative's acceptance speech here: https://youtu.be/lXUKSasXPwg?si=_PZTqF7Cv5ztgx7y

Search the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery database here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/

Find out more about Dream Time Creative here: https://dreamtimecreative.org/

Read more about the Community Archive and Heritage Award here: https://www.archives.org.uk/news/community-archive-amp-heritage-awards-2023