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Date: 30 June 2012
Venue: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
WOMEN AND LOCAL ACTIVISM AFTER
THE VOTE WAS WON
Programme
10 am Welcome
Key note address: Professor Karen Hunt, Keele University.
11am Coffee Break
11.20 Session 1
Citizenship and Civic Engagement
Laura Paterson, University of Dundee, Women's Citizenship and Local Activism.
Ruth Davidson, The Ideology of the post-suffrage women's movement in Croydon, 1918-1939.
12.30 pm Lunch (bring your own – local cafes nearby)
1.40 pm Session 2 Peace Activism
Katrina Gass, Women as peace activists in Wales before Greenham.
Elaine Titcombe, University of the West of England, Women and Local Activism after the Vote was won “Carry Greenham home.
2.50 pm Tea Break
3.05 pm Session 3 Local Government Activism
Anne Baldwin, Huddersfield University, From philanthropy to internationalism by the local government route: The diversity of women's activism in Reading and Oxford.
Julia Neville, University of Exeter, Learning Together and Supporting One Another: the Devon Council of Women on Public Authorities between the Wars.
AGM 4.20pm
Close 5pm
Contact: June Hannam or Katherine Holden
Telephone: 0117 3284395
E-mail: June.Hannam@uwe.ac.uk Katherine.Holden@uwe.ac.uk
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