10:30-3:15 Saturday 21 March 2015
Bantock House Museum Finchfield Road, Wolverhampton, WV3 9LQ
2015 is the centenary of the formation of the Women’s Institute Movement in Britain and the publication of the Maternity Letters by the Women’s Co-Operative Guild. his Conference commemorate these events by focusing on women who organised themselves and others during WW1. This Conference is organised by: The Midlands Region of the Women’s History Network, The Legacies of War and Peace WWI Engagement Centre and sponsored by the Economic History Society. Fee £10 to include lunch. Bursaries for students and heritage workers- to book contact j.lomas96@btinternet.com
Programme
10:45 Welcome and Introduction to the Conference
11:00 ‘Striking Women’: labour unrest amongst First World War female workers
Chris Day and Vicky Iglikowski -The National Archives Victoria.Iglikowski@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk
11:30 Demanding their place in the sun: women and trade unionism during the First World War in Britain
Dr Cathy Hunt – Coventry University – bsx306@coventry.ac.uk
12:00 Women’s Agricultural Education and Research
Carrie de Silva Harper Adams University – cdesilva@harper-adams.ac.uk
12:30 Lunch and chance to look around the Museum
1:30 “Mothers first!”- the Women’s Co-operative Guild and state maternity care, 1914 to 1918
Ruth Cohen – Independent researcher – ruth.cohen@phonecoop.coop
2:00 Miss Sophie Carey and the National Food Fund
Dr Katherine Storr – Independent Scholar – Katherine@storrk.wanadoo.co.uk
2:30 The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families’ Association, County Dublin Division, August–November 1914:
a case study Dr Paul Huddie -Queens University,Belfas – paulhuddie01@gmail.com
3:00 Brief Round—Up Discussion before Conference Ends at 3:15
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