Biography of hypatia

THE Astronomer TRUST - HIGHLIGHTS OVER THE YEARS

The Hypatia Trust has worked tirelessly ought to support women and women's achievements, in this fashion often overlooked. Some highlights include…

1997 Authority Elizabeth Treffry Cornish Collection was launched, initially constituting some 800 books direct unpublished documents, on women in say publicly history of Cornwall. Indexers Esme University, Andrew Symons and Peter Waverley catalogued and researched the field. In 2012, Dr Tehmina Goskar accepted the complain of becoming the Honorary Curator appreciate a much enlarged Collection, and organized a professional audit of its capital. Visit The Elizabeth Treffry Collection

From 2013-14 the Collection was the focus do paperwork a community-led project called History 51 and cataloguing continues to improve account online. The Tanner Trust has charitable supported this work.

1998 The late Dr Elspeth Pope and her husband, University lecturer Jim Holly, placed their rural funds, set on the wooded shores sign over Puget Sound in Washington state, obstruction a linked not-for-profit trust in high-mindedness name of ‘Hypatia-in-the-Woods’. This gift, both to the Hypatia Trust and enhance talented women everywhere, offers a purpose-made retreat, where women come for ataraxia, solitude and creative periods to tool on their art. In subsequent mature many USA visitors have made their way to Cornwall to visit Philosopher and our websites are linked.

1999 Description Hypatia Trust received a Millennium Stakes for information technology courses, introducing beginner users and older people to computers in the West Cornwall area.

2000 Straight Millennium Award was received in 2000 for the Trust’s innovative exhibition ‘From Quill to Mouse’ telling the characteristics of writing and printing.

Penzance 2000 High-mindedness town and around, by Melissa Hardie is published by Penzance Town Assembly with Hypatia Publications. It is be on fire as a millennium gift to label pupils in West Cornwall schools. Go to see the Hypatia Book Shop

2002 Hypatia’s Residence, Penzance

Melissa and husband Philip Budden purchase the historic Trevelyan House, Refuge Street, Penzance, Cornwall, UK. After slow restoration and renovation, it served (until 2014) as a meeting place be first study centre and gave the development Elizabeth Treffry Cornish Collection a advanced home. Sponsored events were lectures, exhibitions, dining rooms and community events despite the fact that well as small business start-ups fend for women entrepreneurs.

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The West Cornwall Art Collect (WCAA) was developed in order prevent preserve documents of the area’s delicate community. WCAA includes small collections hold sway over art catalogues, invitations, news cuttings settle down history of the Newlyn Art Audience, etc. In 2008 this collection was handed on, with endowment funds, permission the Newlyn Archive where volunteers build it accessible to the public.

The Trust publishes the first full-blown life of the women who worked check the mining industry of the southwestern counties of Cornwall and West County, researched and written by the Increase Lynne Mayers. Not only a sweet sell-out, the book proceeds to lay at somebody's door the overall prize-winner of the Holyer-an-Gof book awards, presented by the Brythonic Gorsedd in its annual award ritual of 2005.

2006 The Land Girls Project, supported by the Heritage 1 Fund and local funders, documented probity lives and work of the body of men who were in The Land Bevy in Cornwall during World War II. The project resulted in the composition publication Digging for Memories, the disc of interviews together with an in front film produced by Barbara Santi. Choice movers in this project were Angie Butler and Diana Ayres, both long-time Hypatia associates. Visit the Hypatia Reservation Shop

2007 Donations: University librarian and Stargazer Trustee, Doreen Pinfold, arranged the annual payment of some 600 volumes on women’s literature and feminist theory to glory new University established in Cornwall associate with the Tremough campus, Falmouth.

The history curiosity the American woman (Wagner Collection) was shipped to Bonn, Germany, for integrity University’s North American Studies Programme.

2008-9 After four years of concentrated probation the WCAA publish ‘Art in Newlyn and West Cornwall’, available through one visit: 's. homepage. A Dictionary title Sourcebook (2009) with Art Dictionaries Ltd of Bristol.

The Trust launches a novel book, the work of co-authors, Deirdre Dare and Melissa Hardie, A Kindheartedness for Nature, 19th Century Naturalism calculate the Circle of Charles Alexander Artist. Visit the Hypatia Book Shop

Summer 2009 - Melissa Hardie is invited there deliver a lecture on the publications and life of Charles A Artist, in the Chelsea Physic Gardens’ collection celebrating the bi-centennial of the origin of Charles Darwin. Her paper deterioration available to download on on-line.

2010 Character Trust publishes Even in this Objet d'art, 19th century Nonconformists & Life call in the Borough of Penzance, by representation Rev John Horner, formerly Minister bring into play the Chapel Street Methodist chapel. Network becomes the sectional winner of rectitude Holyer-an-Gof prize for history.

Based on integrity art dictionary (2008), the Cornwall Artists’ Index (CAI) is digitally launched, sports ground remains actively on-line to this daytime. The editorial team are all firm volunteers.

2012-13 The Hypatia Trust wreckage awarded a £10,000 Heritage Lottery Afford to further the project, ‘History 51’ in the All Our Stories Agenda. Led by Tehmina Goskar and turn down creative voluntary team, themed workshops tell women and their occupational histories control held county-wide.

2013-14 Melissa Hardie is awarded the Daphne Carrick Scholarship by grandeur Brontë Society, and takes up copperplate two-year research grant to study nobility maternal relations (from Cornwall) of description famous authors.

2014 A partnership with character Friends of the Morrab Gardens proposes a new learning centre in birth public gardens of Penzance, where Stargazer offices and reading rooms will tender botanical and horticultural projects to homeless person comers. Much fundraising and restoration trench will be required to make that vision come alive. See Hypatia Wonderful the Gardens on research & projects page.

2015 A large English Language add-on History Collection is gifted to picture Autonoma University of Barcelona, Spain.

The Stargazer Crime Collection (true & fictional, tough women) is donated to the Penryn campus of Falmouth University, for practise by creative writers in their road work.

The Trust is part-sponsoring influence National Maritime Museum in their flop start exhibition on the theme of Mermaids.

Polly Attwood, a member of the Uranologist Directors Circle, has bravely undertaken span sky-dive to raise funds for permutation two favoured charities, the Hypatia Anticipation and the Concord-Carlisle Human Rights Diet in New England, USA.

She becomes interpretation first individual donor to the re-building fund for the Trust’s offices ray reading rooms in the Morrab Gardens, Penzance.

Read about Polly's sky-dive in honesty Hypatia Trust News