Dear all

 

Magdalen College Library and Archive: exhibition ‘Women and Power? A Magdalen Story’

Special lecture series 2020

 

Magdalen College Library and Archive are pleased to invite you to attend two events in spring 2020 which accompany the current Old Library exhibition ‘Women and Power? A Magdalen Story’ which marks 40 years of co-education here. This exhibition drew heavily on the College’s oral history project, and three of its participants will take part in the second event to share their experiences of life after Magdalen. The first talk puts the Magdalen experience into a broader historical context, one which is relevant to other Oxbridge colleges as well as educational institutions elsewhere.

 

Attendance is free but booking is required via [log in to unmask] (or call 01865 276045).

 

Each session starts with a talk, and is followed by free drinks/nibbles and an opportunity to view the exhibition in the Old Library (also open to all on Wednesday afternoons 2.00-4.30pm).

 

Fri 24^th Jan 2020, 1730-1915

Women at Oxford and Magdalen

Prof Laurence Brockliss, Magdalen College: 'What's in a name? Contrasting visions of the purpose of educating women at Oxford pre-1940'

Kathryne Crossley, Kellogg College: ‘”That a sinister suspicion cannot in all likelihood light upon her”: the domestic work of women at Magdalen College’

 

Fri 6^th Mar 2020, 1730-1915

How to make your next steps into giant leaps! Following in the footsteps of successful Magdalen alumnae

Discussion panel of Carol Garbutt, Jessica Jones and Fiona Thompson, Magdalen Alumna, with Katrina Kelly and Chloe Hughes, Magdalen College archive oral history interns (summer 2019)

 

Best wishes

 

Charlotte Berry

College Archivist

 

 

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