WOMEN, HISTORY AND THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
THURSDAY 26.2.04
10.00 am - 3.45 pm
at The Women's Library, Old Castle
Street, London E1 7NT
£28 including lunch (£23 concessions)
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A fascinating insight given by archivists and researchers into women's experience of the business environment
Programme below
WOMEN, HISTORY AND THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
THURSDAY 26.2.04
PROGRAMME
9.45 Registration
10.00 Opening remarks - Antonia Byatt, Director of The Women's Library
10.15 "Women in the Office in the UK between 1880-1960"
Dr Greg Anderson, Senior Lecturer, School of Accounting, Economics and Management Sciences, University of Salford
10.45-11.45 Chair: Claire Bunkham
10.45-11.46 "Women's History and the BP Archive" - Valerie Johnson, History Researcher, BP Plc
"Politics and the Working Woman in Great Britain, 1928-1939" - Martine Stirling, Lecturer in English, University of Nantes
11.45-12.0 Coffee
12.15-1.15 Chair: Antonia Byatt
"Class and Culture Behind the Counter: the emerging role of women managers in the John Lewis Partnership
1920-1950" - Judy Faraday, Archivist, John Lewis Partnership
"Women Graduates in the Workplace" - Nicky Sugar, Archivist, Royal Holloway and Bedford College
1.15-2.15 Lunch
2.15-2.45 "'A most decided success': the introduction of lady clerks at Prudential from 1871" - Clare Bunkham, Assistant
Archivist, Prudential Plc
2.45-3.45 Chair: Teresa Doherty
"Women, Work and the Telephone: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Information Age" - Vicki Belt, Lecturer in
Management, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne Business School
"The agreeable fad of a few influential people. Why women were hired for the Post Office Savings Bank in 1874" - Ellen
Jordan, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, New South Wales
3.45 Closing remarks
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