As you may know, today (8th March) is International Women's Day. To mark the occasion, on Wednesday 6th March the Speaker's Advisory Committee on Works of Art held a lecture on Margot Asquith, wife of Herbert Henry Asquith who was Prime Minister from 1908-1916.
I was asked to introduce the speaker, Professor Krista Cowman from the University of Lincoln. Professor Cowman is a historian and has published widely on the women’s suffrage movement. Her current research project is on Feminism and Historical Memory in Europe. She is a founder member of the Women’s History Network and the former editor of the Labour History Review.
You can read my introduction and speech - which draws on my experiences as a woman in politics - here.
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I was asked to introduce the speaker, Professor Krista Cowman from the University of Lincoln. Professor Cowman is a historian and has published widely on the women’s suffrage movement. Her current research project is on Feminism and Historical Memory in Europe. She is a founder member of the Women’s History Network and the former editor of the Labour History Review.
You can read my introduction and speech - which draws on my experiences as a woman in politics - here.
Parliamentary copyright image reproduced with the permission of Parliament.
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