Please come to the launch of a new book “You Can’t Kill the Spirit” the story of the women against pit closures who set up camp 24/7 for over five months, outside some of the most threatened collieries in January 1993 to stop the further destruction of mining communities.
Waterstones Book Shop
Orchard Square, Sheffield S1 2FB
Sunday 13th January 4:30
and at the Grapes, 80 Trippet Lane, S1 4EN from 6pm
RSVP if poss to SWAPCPitCamp1993@gmail.com
The Campaign To End Leeds Sex Trade (CELST), SPACE International and Build A Girl proudly presents ‘A Different Approach’, an exploration of leading exiting strategies, activism and abolition.
The event will bring together women from across the globe to discuss their experiences in prostitution and of frontline service provision to women in prostitution, and their collective opposition to the global sex trade. Speakers include Ally Diamond, Vednita Carter, Bridget Perrier, Rachel Moran and Fiona Broadfoot, chaired by Councillor Sarah Field.
This important event takes place on Saturday 23 February from 12.30 to 4,30pm. The venue is Leeds Civic Hall in Calverley Street LS1 1UR. Tickets cost £5 and are available from Eventbrite.
Remembering Resistance is a project that brings to life the last 100 years of women’s involvement in protests in the North of England. They are seeking women to get involved in two ways:
The project is organising a series of events where women can give information about themselves and their experiences with protest, both within their communities and within the North of England. One element involves identifying the top 10 most significant sites for women’s protest in the North. To do this, they are mapping all the protests in which women have played a significant role over the last 100 years to tell the story of protest, power, and place in the region.
The events are happening in a variety of places across the North. There will be one at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford on 2 March and others are being planned, including one in Leeds. There is more information at www.rememberingresistance.com
If you are interested in being trained as an interviewer, or being involved in the project in another way, please get in touch at rememberingresistance@gmail.com
Were you a Greenham Woman? Do you have any stories about Greenham? Do you have friends, colleagues or family members who were at Greenham? A new project wants to interview women who were involved in the Greenham Common Peace Camp between 1981 and 2000.
The Heritage Lottery Fund South West has awarded Cornish feminist theatre hub Scary Little Girls, in partnership with The Heroine Collective, a 50k grant to bring this hugely important piece of feminist heritage into public access. The oral history collated during the project will be presented in a specially designed website, a nationwide exhibition, and will have a permanent home at The Women’s Library at The London School of Economics.
Women from all over the world braved every weather and indignity to to protest peacefully and creatively about the threat to humankind from the nuclear arms race. In a time before the internet and mobile phones, the women and their supporters managed to organise thousands for actions like “Embrace the Base” in 1982, in which 30,000 women held hands around the edges of the common.
Interviews will take place between January and April 2019, and will be ideally done in person. If women aren’t able to get out of the house, the group can happily arrange to go to them. They only have resources to interview 100 women but they are also exploring ways to include stories in other forms on the website, so that everyone’s experience is included. The project is also interested in hearing about any archival material that women may have, such as photographs, letters, paintings or documentation.
You can contact the project at hello@greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk
Baroness Brenda Hale, the country’s most senior female lawyer will give the 2019 Alice Bacon public lecture at Leeds University, honouring the achievements of Yorkshire’s first woman MP.
Lady Hale, who is the UK’s first woman law lord and the first female president of the Supreme Court, will talk on A Century of Women’s Rights – 2019 marks the centenary of women being able to join the legal profession and hold public office.
The inaugural Alice Bacon Lecture was held in January 2018 and was given by MP Harriet Harman in a packed Great Hall at the University of Leeds.
The lecture will take place on Thursday 10 January, 6-7pm in the Great Hall at the University of Leeds LS2 9JT. A drinks reception will follow the lecture. Tickets are free but must be booked in advance at Eventbrite.