Lois Bibbings and Gwen Seabourne have been awarded funding by the Institute for Advanced Studies, to hold a series of five research workshops on gender aspects of protest against legal rules, coinciding with the centenary of notable incidents in the history of the campaign for women’s suffrage. The first session, "Bristol: October 1913", is on Thursday 24th October at 5.45 in G 25 (Reynolds Lecture Theatre) in the Wills Memorial Building.
Lois Bibbings and Gwen Seabourne have been awarded funding by the Institute for Advanced Studies, to hold a series of five research workshops on gender aspects of protest against legal rules, coinciding with the centenary of notable incidents in the history of the campaign for women’s suffrage.
In October 1913, the University’s sports pavilion was burned down, probably by militant suffragettes participating in a campaign of arson intended to draw attention to their cause and to force the government to move towards allowing women the vote on the same basis as men. Bristol University students then attacked the shop and local headquarters of the Women’s Social and Political Union, situated on Queen’s Road opposite the site of the Wills Memorial Building. The incidents were widely reported in the local and national press.
These workshops in 2013-14 will reflect upon the campaigns for female suffrage, their antecedents and successors, covering areas from Classics to Sociology, via Drama, History, Law and more.
The first session, Bristol: October 1913, is on Thursday 24th October at 5.45 in G 25 (Reynolds Lecture Theatre) in the Wills Memorial Building. It will feature papers by local historian and Bristol suffragette expert Lucienne Boyce and June Hannam, Professor of History at U.W.E. Timed to coincide with the centenary of the 1913 incidents, this will be a chance to consider both militant suffragette activity and also less extreme campaigns for the vote.
If you would like to attend, please email:
lois.s.bibbings@bristol.ac.uk
or
g.c.seabourne@bristol.ac.uk
