Autumn 2023: An online course on Radical Women, 1914 to 1978
In the autumn I will be teaching an online course using Zoom on Radical Women, 1914 to 1978.
I am a freelance historian and have been researching and writing about radical women for many years, and have been running online courses using Zoom since March 2020.
My published work includes “Up Then Brave Women” : Manchester’s Radical Women 1819-1918 and “For the sake of the women who are to come after:” Manchester’s Radical women, 1914-1945
The course will last 10 weeks and will be held in the evenings, starting on Monday 2nd October 2022, and ending on Monday 11th December. (There will not be a class on Monday 6th November.) The course fee will be £60.
For more information or to reserve a place, please email me, Michael Herbert : redflagwalks@gmail.com
Course outline
The course will include the following
The First World War
- Response of suffragist and suffragette organisations to the declaration of war
- Effect of war on women’s employment
- Campaigns for the rights of women war workers
- The Christmas letters between British and German women
- The International Women’s Congress in the Hague in 1915
- The No Conscription Fellowship
- The Women’s Peace Crusade in 1916 and 1917
- The end of war and the Treaty of the Versailles.
The 1920s
- What happened to women workers after the end of the war ?
- Women in the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement
- Campaigns for equality and the Equal Rights Procession, July 1926
- Women’s International League
- Peacemakers’ Pilgrimage, 1926
- the campaign to make birth control available
- The General Strike
The 1930s
- Women and mass unemployment
- Women in the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement
- Women and the fight against the fascist Blackshirts
- Women and the Spanish Civil War
The Second World War
- Evacuation, September 1939
- Women war workers
- Woman and the ATS
- Ellen Wilkinson’s war
- The Women’s Parliaments 1941 and 1942
Post-war 1945-51
- Ellen Wilkinson’s peace
- The Equal Pay Commission
- Women and work after the war
- The squatting movement 1946
- Bessie Braddock and Barbara Castle
The 1950s
- Women and work
- Leisure
- Sex and Marriage
- Equal pay
- Peggy Duff and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
- Claudia Jones
- Ann Jellicoe and Shelagh Delaney
The 1960s and 1970s
- Social and cultural change
- The Permissive Society
- The Underground
- The women strikers at Ford and Equal Pay
- Patricia Veal and the United Nurses’ Association
- The Leeds Textile Workers strike, 1970
- Women’s Liberation movement, 1969 to 1978
I did not make any of the sessions last year but hopefully I will make some this year
Hope to carch up. your members might be interested in the Tate Britain Exhibition opening on the 8th Novemver, Women in Revolt, it will travel to Manchester after that, I think to the Whitworth. Margaret Harrison