Volunteers and Voters:The First World War and its Legacy

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The Conference is organised by: The Women’s History Network, Midlands Region

Saturday, 12 November 201610.30am - 4.00pm

Worcester Room, Conference Centre (CC 004)

University of Worcester, St. John’s Campus, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ

Volunteers and Voters: The First World War and its Legacy

Provisional Conference Programme

10.30am Registration and Coffee – Worcester Room, Conference Centre (CC 004)

11.00am Welcome (CC 004) – Dr Wendy Toon, University of Worcester

The Voters and Volunteers Project – Prof Maggie Andrews, University of Worcester

Invited Speaker (CC 004):

11.15am ‘Women and the Brave New World of Communal Dining, 1917-1919’ - Dr Bryce Evans, Liverpool Hope University

Panel Discussions:

Panel 1: Volunteers: Religious Responses (CC 004)

12noon ‘Fundraisers and Tea-Makers: The pre- and post-war roles of Glasgow Orangewomen’ - Dr Deborah Butcher, University of Glasgow

12.30pm ‘To represent all the women of the city: Catharine Albright and the Birmingham Community Club’ – Dr Siȃn Roberts, University of Worcester

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Panel 2: Red Cross Volunteers (Hereford Room, CC 009)

12noon ‘Creating a Transatlantic Authority: A Canadian Woman in London, 1914-1918’ – Dr Elizabeth Kirkland, Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

12.30pm ‘The First World War background of Devon’s early women magistrates, with particular reference to service within the Devonshire Red Cross’ - Dr Julia Neville, Exeter University

1.00–2.00 Exhibition (CC 004) – ‘Worcestershire Voters and Volunteers, 1914-1939’

Sandwich Lunch

Invited Speaker (CC 004):

2.00pm ‘Rural women, volunteer networks and the politics of food production during the First World War: The Women’s War Agricultural Committees’ - Dr Nicola Verdon, Sheffield Hallam University

Voters (CC 004)

2.45pm ‘Women and Lancashire Conservatism between the Wars’ – Dr Neil Fleming, University of Worcester

3.15pm ‘Voters and the Voteless: The 1918 franchise and working-class women in Birmingham’ - Anna Muggeridge, University of Worcester

Volunteers and Voters:The First World War and its Legacy

University of WorcesterBooking Form

Conference Fee: £15 (Full fee)

Concessions [unwaged/retired/postgraduate students] - £7.50

University of Worcester and local School/College students – Free

Members of HLF-funded Projects - Free

To book: By post - Please either return the form to the address below with a cheque made out to ‘Women’s History Network Midlands Region’ or return the form and pay cash on the day (please indicate this on the form).

By email – Please return this form to Janey Robins (j.robins@worc.ac.uk) to reserve your place. Please include the Subject: WHN Conference, November 2016.

Postal address: Dr Wendy Toon, Department of History, University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ.

For further details, please contact: Dr Wendy Toon w.toon@worc.ac.uk or 01905-855305

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