Why Now?

2018 marks the centenary of the first women (over 30 and meeting the property owning criteria) winning the right to vote in General Elections. Vox Feminarum: Women's Voices together with the Heritage Lottery Fund, our hosts the University of Derby and other partners examine, remember and celebrate the place of women past and present.

Conference Themes:

• A Woman's Place in Art, Politics, Science and Religion

• A Woman's Place in Grassroots Activism

• The Suffrage Movement 1866 - 1928

• The Women's Liberation Movement 1960s Onwards

• Researching Women's Individual and Collective Histories

Confirmed Speakers:

Speakers, presenters and facilitators will include community organisers/activists academic and independent scholars.

Prof Antonia Bilfuco, University of Middlesex - Personal Histories The Impact of Past Trauma on the Present;

Vanessa Boon, International Woman's Day Derby and HERSTORY Derby;

Sarah Chubb Archives Manager Derbyshire Records Office, Matlock;

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Mo Cooper, Community Historian, founding member Nottingham Women's History Group (nwhg); Board Member HLF East Midlands

Joanna Czechowska, author The Black Madonna of Derby and Sweetest Enemy;

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Dr Ali Flint - Paper Trails and Lost Voices: Rediscovering women in the archives

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Dr Ruth Larsen - University of Derby ‘From Herstory to the main stream? Women’s history and the public, 1973-2018 .

Suzie Litton-Wood Awakening The Goddess;

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Clare Mullin -Parliamentary Outreach and Engagement Team.

Dr Sarah Richardson University of Warwick - The Women's Suffrage Movement;

Dr Catrin Rutland, University of Nottingham - Women in Science;

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Ruchita Shaikh - Executive Director at Artcore, a visual arts charity in Derby.

Maggie Slingsby - Women in Art;

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Christina Smith, Derby Unity - Women in Religion

Karen Whelan - Activist Disabled People Against The Cuts (DPAC) Derby and Women Against The Cuts

Prof Cecile Wright, University of Nottingham - The Place of Women in Politics

What Will You Gain:

An insight into the lives, contributions and place of women from suffrage to the present and some of the personal and collective histories and social-political activism which underpins it all. Come Join us

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