The West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network 22^nd  Annual Conference
Saturday 20^th June 2015
Royal Literary and Scientific Institute, Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN 10am – 5pm
ALL WELCOME

GENDERING THE WORKPLACE

9.30 Registration
9.50 Welcome
10.00 Keynote Lecture: Selina Todd, (St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford), Women, Work and Family in 20th century England
11.00- 11.30 Tea/Coffee Break
11.30 – 1.00 Panel 1: Defining Women’s Work: Campaigns and Networks, 1920s to 1950s.
Phillipa Haughton, (Durham University), ‘The Women’s Advertising Club of London, 1923-1954’
Helen Glew, (University of Westminster), ‘She’s back at the mill’: an analysis of the 1947 ‘Women at Work’ campaign.
Catriona Beaumont, (London Southbank University), “Women’s Work” in the 1950s: Housewives associations’ and attitudes towards housework, paid work and deviant work in 1950s Britain.
1.00  Lunch
2.00  Panel 2: Women, Work and War in Bristol 1914-1920
June Hannam (University of the West of England) Women and Work in Bristol: the impact of the First World War
Lucienne Boyce (independent Bristol author) “Does she deserve the vote?”: Women’s First World War Work and Women’s Franchise.
3.00 Tea/Coffee Break
3.15 Panel 3: The Diversity of Women’s Work: three 19^th century case studies
Jane Howells (British Association for Local History) Henrietta Lear: A full and productive life
Elaine Titcombe (University of the West of England) “Rebecca. A remarkable lady of business: this is a true account of the life and times of Rebecca John née Griffiths.”
Ross Belson (University of the West of England) “Nothing can be more gentlemanlike than they (the publishers) have been to me”: Caroline Norton, her editors and her publishers.

4.30 AGM of the West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network
5pm close

For further information about the conference contact Katherine.Holden@uwe.ac.uk or June.Hannam@uwe.ac.uk