Dates for the Friends’ talks programme, Autumn Term 2024:
Wednesday 18 September, 2.30 pm. The library is getting a new archive catalogue this summer which has a modern interface. LSE Library Archivist Silvia Gallotti has carried out all the work to move the old archive catalogue across to the new one. In this session she will give a demonstration to the Friends.
Wednesday October 9th, 2.30 pm. Dr Laura Lammasniemi of the University of Warwick: ‘Archiving women’s struggles with the law’.
This talk will focus on the trials of women who were accused of transmitting venereal disease during the First World War, based on the archives of Association for Moral and Social Hygiene and those of the National Vigilance Association, which are held in The Women’s Library. She will highlight the importance of the Police Court Rota records and the role volunteer women played in creating and maintaining these important yet neglected sources of legal history.
Wednesday November 6th, 2.30 pm. Susan Pares, independent researcher and writer: ‘The Sisters’ window for the sisters’: the Women’s National War Memorial for the First World War, York Minster’.
The First World War national memorial to the women who died in that conflict is now very little known to the general public and has been little researched. It was unveiled in June 1925. This talk seeks to reinstate the memorial and to compare it briefly with the 2005 Monument to the Women of World War II.
Wednesday December 11th, 2.30 pm. Liz Goldthorpe, a legal biographer and retired tribunal judge, will speak on the first UK woman barrister – and it’s not the one you think!
All talks will be hybrid, i.e. for personal and Zoom attendance. Login details are circulated nearer each date.