Location
Somerville College

A one-day Symposium and room-naming ceremony to be held at SOMERVILLE COLLEGE, OXFORD to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the death of Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1872 – 1946), Somerville’s first Member of Parliament
There will also be an opportunity to visit John Stuart Mill’s personal library in Somerville, under the guidance of Dr Frank Prochaska. Somerville has recently completed a successful crowdfunding scheme to restore the damaged volumes.
This symposium is generously sponsored by Rathbones Investment Management and Somerville College, Oxford
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Susan Pedersen, Professor of History, Columbia University, New York. Professor Pedersen’s presentation, ‘The Ladies Vanish’ will explore the network of female support that underlies Rathbone’s achievements.
Confirmed speakers: Dr Julie Gottlieb, University of Sheffield. ‘Eleanor Rathbone and the Women Churchillians: The Gender Politics of Anti-Appeasement.’; Professor Pat Thane, King’s College, London. Title to be announced; Dr Sumita Mukherjee, , King’s College, London. ‘Eleanor Rathbone and Radhabhai Subbarayan: Debates on Indian Female Franchise in the 1930s’
ALL ARE WELCOME
The conference will include papers covering the period 1893-1946 which explore campaigns and issues with which Eleanor Rathbone was engaged:
- Politics, national and international
- Education
- Social change
- Citizenship and suffrage
- Family and child poverty
- Welfare reform
- Women in the public sphere
For further information please contact Susan Cohen (drsusancohen@gmail.com) or Lesley Urbach (lcurbach@aol.com)
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