For Women's History Month, we're shining a light on some of the women from our archives who deserve to be celebrated. Evie Salter, from our Special Collections and Archives team, highlights photographer, Brenda Prince - whose work captures the reality of women and other marginalised communities.

Having been 'fed up with the way women were constantly misrepresented and stereotyped, as well as other so-called “minority” groups, such as gay men and lesbians, Black people, people with disabilities, and the elderly', Brenda Prince became a photographer in the 1970s in efforts to capture the everyday lives and realities of members of these communities.

One highlight from Prince’s archive is her photographs depicting the Miners’ Strike (1984-1985). As a working class woman, Prince felt it was important to document this movement from the miners’ wives’ perspective. She spent 18 months with the mining communities in Nottinghamshire. This work resulted in the ‘Striking Women: Communities and Coal’ exhibition, a collaborative effort with photographers Raissa Page, Imogen Young, and Izabela Jedrzejczyk.