A LECTURER who is trying to feminise the history of God's House Tower is appealing for help in producing a book about the building.

The 700 Women project is an attempt by Bitterne-based artist and lecturer Sarah Filmer to "symbolically feminise" the history of the tower, the 700-year-old Grade II listed building on Winkle Street, after she found no records of any women detailed in accounts of the building's history.

Last year the artist led a parade through the building and is now putting together a book filled with photographs, drawings and writing made by visitors to the tower and the artists who have been in residence there since last year.

From babies to octogenarians, and with women from Hampshire's music scene, running groups, activists, artists and those keen on getting their names written into the history of the building, Ms Filmer said the 700 Women event "generated fond memories, as well as a huge amount of material for future exhibition and sharing".

She added: "I am currently planning how to embed some of the material in the very fabric of GHT as development of the building into an arts and heritage centre takes place."

Ms Filmer will be showing off some of the work at a series of events in July in the former town gunnery on Town Quay.

She is looking for help to get the book produced, and has launched a Kickstarter campaign to pay for the production.

If you would like to order a book go to https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1922931030/700-women-book

God’s House Tower began life in the late 13th century as a gatehouse but was expanded after the French raid of 1338 to become a strategic part of the town’s defensive walls.

God’s House Tower on Town Quay is one of Southampton’s few remaining intact mediaeval buildings and has been used as a gunnery, a jail and the city’s archaeological museum.

It is currently being turned into an arts and heritage centre by Southampton development company a space arts, who also manage the Arches Studios and Eastleigh's Sorting Office.