ALISS Womens History Month showcase 2026
See our 2026 celebration of Arts and Crafts women – week one now available.
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March 19th 2-4 pm approx. final programme to be confirmed
This special event aims to showcase the relationship between material culture and women’s activism . A range of speakers will offer insight from archival collections covering women’s history . They will show case great examples of objects held in special collections and archives there will also be some discussion of organising workshops around these.
the event will take place via MS teams. It will not be recorded. Slides will be offered where available.
It is free for all
to register email Heather Dawson
h.dawson@lse.ac.uk
Presenters will include:
Elizabeth Crawford- The British Women’s Suffrage Movement in 100 objects
She will provide a fascinating preview of her forthcoming book The British Women’s Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects: a material history – to be published in paperback by Bloomsbury Academic in July 2026.
In a sequence of 100 objects, she relates the history of the British ‘votes for women’ campaign from tentative beginnings in 1866 to the granting of the vote to all women on the same terms as men in 1928. Bringing the story up to date, the last few objects highlight the way the campaign has subsequently been shaped and celebrated. This book owes a great deal to material held in the Women’s Library at LSE, as well as in private collections.
Elizabeth is an independent researcher and for decades ran a business selling antiquarian books and ephemera by and about women, specialising in the suffrage movement. Among her books are The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 (1999), Enterprising Women: The Garretts and Their Circle (2002), The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey (2005), and Art and Suffrage: a biographical dictionary of suffrage artists (2018).
Helen Burton and Ash Coffey (Keele University Library)
Women’s Activism, Material Culture and the North Staffordshire Miners’ Wives Action Group Archive
The presenters will Explore the NSMWAG Archive at Keele University, the role of material culture in preserving women’s activism, and reflect on why such collections matter.
Ursula Ackrill, Special Collections Librarian and Sarah Colborne, Collections Archivist with Manuscripts and Special Collections, University of Nottingham
Feminist Archives at the University of Nottingham
The presenters will share how surviving remnants of material culture produced by second wave feminists are being used to engage with younger generations through badge making, zine making workshops and in teaching on modules whose subject overlaps with feminist thought and history. Find out how co-creating learning experiences with students has guided some GenZ peoples’ thinking on organising protests of their own.
final programme timings will be confirmed near the date
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