The 2022 Platinum Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth, as well as her state funeral, highlighted the importance of commemoration in the life of a nation. For Britain, these two instances of commemoration were focused on female representations of nationhood. Women’s History…
Author: Catia Rodrigues
Friends of the Women’s Library
A number of people have said rail strikes next week will keep them at home on 14 December. We think it best to make Lucy Rogers’s talk on Pernel Strachey a Zoom-only event. More information on the event can be…
Friends of the Women’s Library Talks Programme 2022-23
The Friends of the Women’s Library Talks Programme for 2022-23 recommences on Wednesday 21 September at 2.30pm. Professor June Purvis will speak on Christabel Pankhurst 1880-1958; a Biography. This will be a Zoom presentation only. The link will be: https://lse.zoom.us/j/8146548491?pwd=c0JnUEl1eEpqRDc1Y0V2UXdnVytGUT09 Meeting ID: 814 654…
Friends of The Women’s Library Talks Programme
The next presentation in the talks programme of the Friends of The Women’s Library, on Wednesday 16 March at 2.30 pm, will be Anne Summers, ‘The women who didn’t … reflections on female middle-class poverty, c. 1850-1950’. Dr Anne…
Friends of The Women’s Library: Talks Programme
The talks programme of the Friends of The Women’s Library recommences next Wednesday 12 January at 2.30 p.m. We’ll be returning to our theme of regional differences within the suffrage movement, with Clare Wichbold MBE speaking about her research…
Independent Miss Craigie
A new feature documentary, Independent Miss Craigie, whichtells the story of one of the UK’s first women film directors) will have its cinema premiere at the Arts Cinema, Plymouth on Friday 19 November at 6.30. Jill Craigie, (1911 – 99)…
Friends of the Women’s Library: Change of Programme
The Friends of the Women’s Library regret that the talk on Clara Rackham on 17 November has had to be postponed. Mary Joannou is unwell, but it is not serious. The talk will be rescheduled in 2022. Mary would like…