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Colleagues - Kent CHOTS (Centre for the History of the Sciences) is delighted to announce the fourth annual H. G. Wells lecture in Science and Society. Wednesday March 4th, 2015; 5.15pm in Keynes Lecture Theatre 5, University of Kent. All welcome. For those who have not yet made the trip, Canterbury is in easy reach of London via the fast line from St Pancras (just under an hour). FIGHTING FOR THE VOTE: SCIENCE AND SUFFRAGE IN WORLD WAR ONE Dr Patricia Fara Clare College, Cambridge Inspired by utopian dreams, H G Wells imagined a future characterized by science, equality and justice - and in 1919, the suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett declared triumphantly, 'The war revolutionised the industrial position of women. It found them serfs, and left them free.' Their optimism was premature. World War I did benefit British women by enabling them to take on traditionally male roles in science, engineering and medicine. But even though women over 30 gained the right to vote, conventional hierarchies were rapidly re-established after the Armistice. Concentrating mainly on a small group of well-qualified scientific and medical women, marginalized at the time and also in the secondary literature, I review the attitudes they experienced and the work they undertook during and immediately after the War. Dr Charlotte Sleigh Reader in History of Science University of Kent A: School of History | Rutherford College | University of Kent | Canterbury CT2 7NX | UK E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Tw: @KentCHOTS Bl: http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/sciencecomma/ W: http://www.kent.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles/sleigh.html