Programme

10.30 – 10.40

Welcome and Introduction to the day

10.40 – 11.30

Professor Maggie Andrews: ‘There are such a lot of things that are so untidy’; stressing the local in women’s histories of 1920s Britain

11.30 – 12.30

Panel session - New Opportunities in Politics

• Lisa Berry-Waite on women standing for Parliament

• Karen Hunt on Agnes Suttill, first women town councillor in Bridport

• Jane Howells on Women and Politics in Salisbury

12.30 – 13.00

Break & Slide Show - Women at Work in the 1920s

13.00 – 13.40

Rozen Whitworth, Hypatia Trust – Women and Craft in the South West in the 1920s, through the Hypatia Collections.

13.40 – 14.15

Devon and Exeter Institution Research Group members – Women’s lives in Exeter’s slum quarter in the 1920s

14.15 – 14.45

Frances Bingham – Reading and Q&A from her new book, Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life.

14.45 – 15.15

Questions, Reflections and Close

Booking

To book a place (free) please contact Julia Neville, j.f.neville@btinternet.com