Events

“We counted all the none-witches. The waterlogged women parcelled in their tiny, tidy, Christian graves.”

Stored in the depths of the Shrewsbury Museum, is a metal contraption designed to silence. Mary Jones has been forgotten from history, but we find her listed among those punished for speaking during meals at the Oswestry House of Industry.

Placida’s legacy is the writing upon her gravestone, uncovered from the Roman ruins in Shropshire.

Queen Amanirenas, Queen of Kush during the early years of the Roman Empire, fought back, led armies, lost an eye, a husband, and a son, yet is mysteriously absent from articles on the Meroë Head. A head she brought back to Meroë and buried beneath the temple in an act of defiance.

Cartimandua reigned in her own right, Julie d’Aubigny infiltrated a nunnery to rescue her lover, Grace Clifford painted a masterpiece on the wall of her prison cell.

Some women sank quietly as the air left their lungs, accusations of witchcraft dragging them into the water. Stone Tongued holds the voices of a few who were forgotten, overlooked, or written out of history. It is both remembrance and protest.