Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights exhibition opens at the British Library on the 23rd October 2020. The exhibition explores female equality through the themes of Mind, Body, and Voice.

As part of the Living Knowledge Network and inspired by those who have paved the way. Suffolk Libraries will be inviting discussion about battles not yet won and welcoming a slice of this exhibition to Ipswich and Lowestoft libraries, responding to the history of equality through online events and activities.

Syd Moore is an author best known for her Essex Witch Museum Mysteries that feature Rosie Strange and Sam Stone and were shortlisted for the Good Reader Holmes and Watson Award 2018. She has also written short stories which have twice been shortlisted for the prestigious ‘dagger award’ by the Crime Writers Association.

At the Zoom event, Syd will be exploring with us the history of female persecution from witch hunts, which are still far from over, to modern day female stereotypes which she challenged with artist Heidi Wigmore in the invention of the card game Super Strumps.

There will be the opportunity to ask Syd questions and she will close the event with a reading from her book: The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas which one attendee will be gifted a signed copy of. 

NB. A subtitled version of this event will be available to watch on our Suffolk Libraries website and youtube channel post-recording.

The Living Knowledge Network is a UK-wide partnership of national and public libraries, founded by the British Library in conjunction with the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales. The only network of its kind in the UK, it aims to promote the exchange of knowledge and develop memorable experiences for library users.

This event is part of a nationwide programme taking place simultaneously in 25 library authorities across the UK as part of the network, generously supported by the Helen Hamlyn Trust.

'Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women’s Rights' 23rd October to 21 February 2021.