Organising Women in WW1, 21st March 2015

2015 is the centenary of the formation of the Women’s Institute Movement in Britain and the publication of the Maternity Letters by the Women’s Co-Operative Guild. To commemorate these events, this Conference aims to bring together anyone who is interested in women who organised themselves and others during WW1.

The conference takes place on March 21 at Bantock House Wolverhampton and is organised by: The Midlands Region of the Women’s History Network, The University of Worcester and the Voices of War and Peace: the Great War and its Legacy Engagement Centre, and sponsored by the Economic History Society.

Conference Fee £10 to include lunch. Bursaries for students and heritage workers available.

To book contact Jan Lomas, j.lomas96@btinternet.com

Programme

10:45 Welcome and Introduction to the Conference

11:00 ‘Striking Women’: labour unrest amongst First World War female workers,

Chris Day and Vicky Iglikowski, The National Archives

11:30 Demanding their place in the sun: women and trade unionism during the First World War in Britain

Dr Cathy Hunt, Coventry University

12:00 Women’s Agricultural Education and Research

Carrie de Silva, Harper Adams University

12:30 Lunch and chance to look around the Museum

1:30 “Mothers first!”- the Women’s Co-operative Guild and state maternity care, 1914 to 1918

Ruth Cohen, Independent researcher

2:00 Miss Sophie Carey and the National Food Fund

Dr Katherine Storr, Independent Scholar

2:30 The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families’ Association, County Dublin Division, August–November 1914: a case study

Dr Paul Huddie, Queens University, Belfast

3:00 Brief Round—Up Discussion before Conference Ends at 3:15