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Provisional programme
10:30 am Registration
and Coffee
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Maternity
and the Family
Katrina Navickas (University of Hertfordshire): ‘The impact of
imprisonment of radical reformers on their families’ economic and political
strategies of survival in early nineteenth-century England’
Diana Paton (University of Edinburgh): ‘Maternity as a site of struggle
in the slavery-era British-colonized Caribbean’
Sarah Hellawell (Northumbria University): ‘“What women can do for
peace”: maternal rhetoric used by the Women’s International League and the
Women’s Co-operative Guild during the interwar years'
12:30 pm Lunch
1:20 pm – 1:45 pm Guided
Tour of the Mining Institute
1:45 pm – 3:15 pm Activism
and the Individual
Laura O’Brien (Northumbria University): ‘“A duty to publish”: Marie
d’Agoult and writing the history of revolution in nineteenth-century France’
Clare Midgley (Sheffield Hallam University): ‘Sophia Dobson Collet and
feminist activism between Britain and India in the late nineteenth century’
Matt Perry (Newcastle University): ‘Ellen Wilkinson and the possibility
of a social movement approach to biography’
3:15 pm Coffee/Tea
Break
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm Women’s
Organisations
Cathy Hunt (Coventry University): ‘“Doing each our duty for our common
womanhood”: examining the realities of union activism in the National
Federation of Women Workers 1906-21’Joanne Darnley (Manchester Metropolitan University): ‘Co-operative women, gender identity and the everyday: a visual and material approach to the co-operative movement in interwar Britain’
Pamela Schievenin (University of Glasgow): ‘Challenging traditional views on women’s work: women’s organisations and welfare reform in post-war Italy’
5:30 pm Closing
Remarks
