Location
History Senior Common Room, Arts Two Building, Mile End
Women have touched just about every aspect of life in Parliament. From ‘Jane’, dispenser of beer, pies and chops in Bellamy’s legendary refreshment rooms; to Eliza Arscot, who went from reigning as Principal Housemaid at the House of Lords to Hanwell Asylum; to May Ashworth, Official Typist to Parliament for thirty years through marriage, war and divorce; and Jean Winder, the first female Hansard reporter, who fought for years to be paid the same as her male counterparts; the lives of these women have been largely unacknowledged – until now.
At this discussion, Dr Mari Takayanagi will present her new book co-authored with Dr Elizabeth Hallam Smith, Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament’s Working Women, and Dr Helen Glew and Dr Lyndsey Jenkins will respond to Mari’s presentation.
For more information about the seminar and to book: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/events/mei-event/necessary-women-the-untold-story-of-parliaments-working-women.html
Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament’s Working Women by Mari Takayanagi and Elizabeth Hallam Smith is published by The History Press: https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/necessary-women/9781803990156/