Women and the Labour Movement in Britain from 1880 to 1950

• 9.30 – Registration
• 10.00 – Welcome

Keynote Lecture

• 10.10 – Karen Hunt (Keele University), ‘Labour and the Housewife’.
• 11.00 – Coffee Break

Panel One: Women and Socialism, 1880-1918

• 11.30 – Martin Wright (Cardiff University), ‘Socialist women in Wales, 1880-1914’.
• 12.00 – Alison Ronan (Manchester Metropolitan University), ‘Film and talk on Suffrage Peace Crusade’
• 12.30 – June Hannam (UWE), ‘Mabel Tothill: From Peace Activism to Local Councillor’.
• 13.00 – Lunch (Please note lunch is not provided at this event and it is advisable to bring a packed lunch)

Keynote Lecture:

• 14.00 – Stephanie Ward (Cardiff University), ‘Political Activism and the Political Self in Interwar Working-Class Women’s Politics’.

Panel Two: Women and Political Activism in the Interwar Years (I)

• 14.45 – Daryl Leeworthy (Swansea University), ‘Democracy in the Nursery: Labour Women and the Struggle for Early Years Education in Interwar Bristol and South Wales’.
• 15.15 – Lucienne Boyce (Independent Scholar, Bristol), ‘”The Dignity of Womanhood”: Olive Beamish (1890-1978), Typist, Trade Unionist, and Labour Activist’.

• 15.45 – Coffee Break

Panel Three: Women and Political Activism in the Interwar Years (II)

• 16.00 – Chorfi Fatima (University of Mohamed Ben Ahmed, Algeria), ‘The Labour Party, the Real Women’s Party, 1918’.

• 16.30 – Alison Maclean (Independent Scholar), ‘Rebel Countesses and the Challenge of Recovering Elite and Aristocratic Women’s Participation in Left-Wing Activism in Interwar Britain’.
• 17.00 – West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network AGM
• 17.30 – Close.

This event is FREE to attend and a warm welcome is extended to all.

For further information about the conference please contact: June.Hannam@uwe.ac.uk. Please register on the Eventbrite page, by clicking here. Directions to the venue can be found by clicking here.

 Image: Alderman Rose Davies JP, courtesy Rhondda Cynon Taff Library Service