2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act – by which (some) women were at last granted the parliamentary vote. To mark the occasion a great many events are planned. You will find some of them listed in the Events -Vote 100 directory.
Events at which I am speaking in 2018
University of Cambridge
Women’s Suffrage and Political Activism:
a conference to commemorate the centenary of the 1918 Reform Act
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Pictures and Politics: the art of suffrage propaganda
A lecture to accompany an exhibition of suffrage posters staged by Cambridge University Library
Date: 3 February 2018
Venue for lecture, Cambridge University Library
see here for details
Centenary Lecture for Gresham College
‘At Last’ – 6 February 1918: celebrating the 100th anniversary of ‘Votes for Women’.
Date: 5 February 2018
Venue: Museum of London
see here for details
The National Archives
Did Militancy Help for Hinder the fight for the vote?
Other speakers: Prof Krista Cowman and Dr Fern Riddell
Date: 20 February 2018
Venue: The National Archives
see here for details
Royal Holloway College
Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Frye’s Suffrage Diary
A talk about the involvement of one woman in the suffrage campaign, as both volunteer and as paid organizer. Based on Kate’s diaries, now held by Royal Holloway College.
Date: 22 February 2018
Venue: Royal Holloway College
see here for details
Kensington Central Library
Suffrage Stories: London Women Who Fought for the Vote
with Sonia Lambert
Date: 26 February 2018
Venue: Kensington Central Library
See here for details
Bristol 100th anniversary celebrations
Pictures and Politics: the art of suffrage propaganda
Venue: Bristol City Hall
Time: 12 noon – 1pm
Date: 3 March 2018
Peckham W.I.
Votes for Women: a brief history
Venue: White Horse pub, Peckham Rye
Date: 7 March 2018 – 8pm
People’s History Museum – Manchester (with Manchester Metropolitan University)
‘The procession was like a medieval festival, vivid with simple grandeur’: banners of the women’s suffrage movement.
Date: 10 March 2018
see here for details
Friends of Salisbury Cathedral
Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Campaigning with Friends and Family
Date: 13 March 2018
see here for details
London School of Economics
Who Were the Suffrage Artists? Lives Revealed
Date: 23 March 2018
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Theatre, LSE.
see here for details
Southwark Cathedral
Pictures and Politics: the art of suffrage propaganda
Date: 24 March 2018 – AM
Venue: Southwark Cathedral
Museum of London
The Suffragette Legacy
Date: 24 March 2018 – PM
See here for details
Women’s History Network Midlands Conference
How the Vote Was Won: 1914-1918
Date: 13 April 2018
Venue: Black Country Living Museum
see here for details
Wandsworth Local History Society
Votes for Women
An illustrated talk on the history of the women’s suffrage movement, 1866-1928, with particular emphasis on the part Wandsworth played in the London campaign.
Date: 27 April 2018
Venue: Friends’ Meeting House,Wandsworth High Street
see here for details
Claydon House – Bucks Art Week #100women artists event
Talk on Suffrage Art – title tbc
Date: 20 May 2018
Highgate School
Votes for Women: a brief history
An illustrated talk on the history of the women’s suffrage movement, 1866-1928, with mention of the part north London played in the campaign.
Date: 21 May 2018
Strandlines Suffrage Walk
Date: 31 May 2018
see here for details
Royal Holloway College
Education, College Women and Suffrage Conference
Keynote speaker: title of talk tbc
Date: 13-14 June 2018
Venue: Royal Holloway College
see here for details
University of Surrey
Centennial Reflections on Women’s Suffrage and the Arts
Keynote speaker – title of talk tbc
Date: 29-30 June 2018
see here for details
Bloom! York Horticultural Festival
Fanny Wilkinson: Britain’s first woman professional landscape gardener
Date: 8 July 2018
Venue: Middlethorpe Hall, York
Blairgowrie
BOOKMARK
The Book Festival of Blairgowrie, Rattray and The Glens
Art and Artists of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign
Date: 6 October 2018
Highgate Cemetery
Talk:title tbc
Date: 20 November 2018
Surrey History Centre, Woking
Talk: title tbc
Date 24 November 2018
