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9:00-9:30 am Registration & Coffee
9:30-11:00 am Panel Session
Reading Room:
Some Books that Changed My Life
- Jane Grant, University of East London & Friends of The Women’s Library
From Whence We Came: History of the Women's Library
- Jill Liddington, University of Leeds
Vanning it with Asquith
Sexualities (Chair: Sally Alexander):
- Barbara Caine, University of Sydney
Sexuality and Sexual Knowledge in British Women's Autobiography
- Mary Spongberg, Macquarie University
Sex and Subjectivity in Mary Hays' Obituary of Mary Wollstonecraft: Rethinking the history of feminism after 1797
- Lesley Hall, Wellcome Library
'Sentimental Follies' or 'instruments of tremendous uplift?' contrasting views of women's same-sex relationships in interwar Britain
Life Histories:
- Elizabeth Kiely & Maire Leane, University College Cork
'People expected more and they wouldn't lie under any conditions like they did in the 1940s': Continuity and Change in the lives of Irish women, 1940-2000. An analysis of 42 life histories.
- Bridget Lockyer, University of York
An Irregular Period? How participation in the Bradford Women's Liberation Movement has impacted women's lives
- Claire Gallagher, Georgian Court University
Changing Lives: Women as Teachers on Ellis Island
Marriage:
- Andrea Thomson, University of Glasgow
Marriage and marital breakdown in late twentieth-century Scotland: tracing women's experience
- Sarah-Anne Buckley, University College Cork
'Deserted wives and deserting husbands: an analysis of State, press and voluntary responses to desertion in Ireland, 1920-1960
- Kate Murphy, Goldsmiths, University of London
'…The strain of combining married life with office work': What the BBC marriage bar tells us about married women's lives in the inter-war years
Networks:
- Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark; Anne Montenach, University of Aix-Marseille; Katie Barclay, Queen’s University, Belfast
Gender in the European Town: an International Network
Feminism and Public History:
- Feminist Webs (Amelia Lee, Niamh Moore, Ali Hanbury, Janet Batesleer)
Feminism for the masses, consciousness raising using our archive
- Women’s History Month group
Women’s Movements:
- Jocelynne Scutt, University of Cambridge
Visibility, Invisibility & Reclamation – Adela Pankhurst, Jennie Baines & Alice Suter in the Australian High Court
- Sandy Wilson, Independent Writer/Filmmaker
Evelina and 'Jack' - a Suffragette Love Story
11:00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-12:30 Plenary Panel: Where Are We Now? Women's History: Past, Present and Future
- Sheila Rowbotham
- Sally Alexander
- Anna Davin
- June Purvis
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-3:00 pm Panel Session
Reading Room:
- Vivienne Richmond, Goldsmiths, University of London
What's in a pair of drawers? Using material culture to explore 'hidden' histories
- Linda Newington, University of Southampton / Winchester School of Art
Knitted together: a collection comes to life
- Clare Rose, The Women’s Library
The Politics of Appearance: Visual and Oral History
Sexualities:
- Wendy Webster, University of Central Lancashire
'There will be mass murder unless the Government gets them out of the country before our men come back': Cross-national and cross-ethnic relationships in Second World War Britain
- Judy Greenway, Independent Scholar
'Not the Church and not the State, women must decide our fate': anarchist feminists and the politics of reproduction
- Hayley Brown, Victoria University of Wellington
'A Woman's Right to Choose': Abortion and the Women's Liberation Movements in New Zealand and New South Wales during the 1970s
Life Histories:
- Lynn Abrams, University of Glasgow
Liberating the self: epiphanies, conflict and coherence in the life stories of post-war British women of the 'transition generation'
- Elizabeth DeWolfe, University of New England
Following Madeline Pollard: Spies, Lies and Women's History
- Charmian Cannon, London Metropolitan University
Peg's War: A story told through letters
Space:
- Jana Sims, Institute of Education
Pioneer Women at the Mechanics' Institutes in South East England in the Nineteenth Century
- Margaret Denny, Columbia College Chicago
Commerce, Collaboration and Creativity: Women in the Spaces of Nineteenth-Century Photography Studios
- Caroline Mogg, Lincoln University
'Being about the land'…women, locality and space in nineteenth-century rural England
Media & Space:
- Maggie Andrews, University of Worcester
Strange or Incompatible Bedfellows? - Feminist History and Heritage Film and Television Texts
- Alexandra Kolesnikova, Ivanavo State University
The transformation of gender public discourse in Russian public media during WWI (a case study of 'Ogonek' journal)
- Domenic Alessio, The American International University in London
'Geysers and 'Girls': Gender, Power, and Colonialism in Icelandic Tourist Imagery
Women’s Movements:
- Olga Shnyrova, Ivanavo State University
National Women's Movements and Women's Suffrage in the Russian Empire between the revolutions: mutual influences and interconnections
- Monica Threlfall, ISET & London Metropolitan University
How can women's movements claim political impact and a role in changing history? Methodological approaches and problems in the case of Spain's democratisation process of 1976-1983
- Karen Buczynski-Lee, University of Melbourne
(Re) discovering technology: feminist perspectives on power, knowledge and communication
3:00-4:15 pm Plenary Panel: The founding and early days of the Women's History Network (Chaired by Lynn Abrams)
- Jane Rendall
- Jo Stanley
- Leonore Davidoff
- Krista Cowman
- Ida Blom
4:15-4:30 pm Coffee
4:30-5:30 pm AGM
Concurrently: Reminiscing about WHN's impact on our lives: A participatory workshop with Jo Stanley
5:30-6:45 pm Public Programme
- East End Walk
- Group Singing Workshop
- Tai Chi
- Banner-making Workshop
6:45-8:45 pm Prize giving, book launches, drinks & finger buffet
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