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'First Ladies' event

Sunday 14 October 2018, 2pm-5.30pm
Regent's University, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London NW1 4NS

 

Join us in the Regent's Park home of Bedford College for this Bedford Society event where speakers - including a Bedford scholar -  will explore the long-term effect on the lives of professional women of the Representation of the People Act (1918) and the Sex Disqualification Removal Act (1919). Areas to be covered will include - amongst others - law, accountancy, diplomacy, scientific enquiry and exploration.

There will be time for questions and discussion, as well as time to meet and greet each other over tea.

Speakers include:

  • Katie Broomfield - postgraduate research student in the Department of History at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College and former Bedford Society Scholar
  • Professor Dame Jane Francis - Director of the British Antarctic Survey and Bedford College alumna
  • Professor Ruth Livesey (Chair) - Professor in 19th Century Literature & Thought
  • Dr Anne Logan - Social Scientist, University of Kent
  • Dr John Prebble - Honorary Fellow, former Vice-Principal and Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry
  • Dame Rosemary Spencer - former British civil servant and diplomat
  • Helen Thornley - Technical Officer at ATT (Association of Taxation Technicians)

Tickets are £25pp and will include tea and a selection of cakes.

We have a limited number of places which will be allocated on a first come, first served basis so please register using the form below as soon as possible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

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