MAINSTREAM WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS
Saturday 13th March 2004
11.30-4.30 pm
at The Women's Library, Old Castle
Street, London E1 7NT
£28 including lunch (£23 concessions)
Call 020 7320 2222 to book
(places are limited)
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A one-day symposium exploring the contribution of women's organisations to women's campaigning in the twentieth century. The day celebrates
the opening of the archives of the National Federation of Women's Institutes to the public
MAINSTREAM WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS
SATURDAY 13TH MARCH 2004
PROGRAMME
11.00 Registration
11.15 Opening remarks - Antonia Byatt, Director of The
Women's Library
11.30-11.55 Overview - "'Stand up and be counted'. mainstream women's organisations and the women's movement in twentieth century Britain" -
Catriona Beaumont
12.00-1.15 "Adding Country to Home - WI members entering public life - 1919-1925" - Anne Stamper
"The W.I.: the acceptable face of feminism" -
Maggie Andrews
"Keeping them down on the farm? Women's Institutes and agricultural education during the interwar period" - Lynne Thompson
1.15-2.15 Lunch
2.15-3.15 "Apostles, Mothers and Commandoes: the Mothers' Union
as pressure group" - Cordelia Moyse
"National Council of Women - the early years" -
Daphne Glick
3.15 Tea
3.30-4.30 "Cuckoo in the Nest? The Origins of the WRVS
- James Hinton
"The Women's Co-operative Guild: some questions of
identity and autonomy" - Gillian Scott
4.30 Closing remarks
