Women’s History Conference
Saturday 23 November 2013
10am – 5pm
Venue: Three Minute Theatre, Afflecks Arcade, Oldham Street, Manchester
Conference fee: £10/£5
Programme
10am -10.30am Registration
Morning Session 10.30am – 1pm
Introduction and welcome
Women, Politics and Music
Chair: Bernadette Hyland
Speakers: Claire Mooney and Alice Nutter
Alice was a member of Chumbawamba. She now writes for the radio, TV and the theatre
Claire is a Manchester-based singer-songwriter and community arts worker
Women as Political Activists
Chair: Chris Clayton
Sonja Tiernan – Delia Larkin and Women in the 1913 Dublin Lockout
Michael Herbert – Sarah Parker Remond, Black American Anti-Slavery Lecturer
Sonja is the author of Eva Gore-Booth, “an image of such politcs”
Michael is the author of “Up Then Brave Women”: Manchester’s radical women, 1819-1918
Lunch 1pm – 2pm (not included
Afternoon Session 2pm – 5pm
Women as Political Activists (2)
Chair : Michael Herbert
Alan Fowler – Alice Foley, Bolton trade unionist
Rae Street and Nick Wilding – Enid Stacy, Socialist, Feminist,
Campaigner and Clarion Vanner
Alan Fowler is a retired lecturer and author of Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work 1900-1950
Rae Street has been a peace campaigner since the 1980s. Nick Wilding is a film-maker.
Panel Discussion on Socialism and Feminism
The debate on the relationship between class and gender, socialism and feminism has gone on for more than a century and continues to this day. Our conference will finish with a discussion on these issues, introduced by our two speakers.
Chair : Bernadette Hyland
Speakers : Lindsey German and Louise Raw
Lindsey is the author of Sex, Class and Socialism and How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women
Louise is the author of Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their place in history and organiser of the Matchwomen’s Festival
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