A Symposium on Women in the 1920s, jointly presented by Devon History Society and the West of England & South Wales Women’s History Network
On 18 September Devon History Society and the West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network are co-hosting a Symposium about Women in the 1920s. Full details of the programme below and on the DHS website. Professor Maggie Andrews is the keynote speaker, and there are a range of contributions about women in local and national politics, women in craft and literature, and women in Exeter’s slum quarter. Because we are not yet clear about how it will be held we are taking pre-bookings and will ask for confirmation once we are certain about the venue.
Venue: Exeter Central Library (if Covid-19 restrictions permit) or by Zoom
Programme
10.00 – 10.30 Registration and Coffee
10.30 – 10.40 Welcome and short film
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 – 12.20 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
12.20 – 13.20 Lunch, Bookstalls & Slide Show - Women at Work in the 1920s
13.20 – 14.00 Rozen Whitworth, Hypatia Trust – Women and Craft in the South West in the 1920s, through the Hypatia Collections.
14.00 – 14.30 Devon and Exeter Institution Research Group members – Women’s lives in Exeter’s slum quarter in the 1920s
14.30 – 15.00 Frances Bingham – Reading and Q&A from her new book, Valentine Ackland: A Transgressive Life.
15.00 – 15.30 Questions, Reflections and Close
Images of Women at Work in the 1920s from anywhere in the West of England and South Wales for the slide show required! Contact organiser (see below) if you can help.
Tickets £16.50 if event held live. For full details of the programme, enquiries and pre-booking please contact Julia Neville, j.f.neville@btinternet.com