Women, War and Remembrance  Conference

Saturday 13 March  2010

At The National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire 

Although, women have not necessarily been central to official forms of remembrance, their lives have been directly and indirectly shaped by war and the memory of war in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.  Popular representations of women’s wartime experiences, personal memories and women’s writing have contributed to public perceptions of war and the iconography of war now includes for example: munitions workers, the home front, evacuation and the grief of mothers and lovers.

 A  conference which addresses these debates  is organised by:   The National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire University  and The Midlands Region of the Women’s History Network. The speakers  are as follows :

Professor Dorothy Sheridan – The Second World War industry: wartime Mass Observation and how we understand it today

Dr Lucy Noakes – “Hitler Couldn’t Get Us Down”: Gender and Memories of the Second World War on the BBC ‘People’s War’ Website

Dr Janis Lomas - ‘They took my husband, they took the money and just left me’:  War Widows and Remembrance after the Second World War

Dr Debra Marshall – Remembering women : Envisioning more inclusive war remembrance in 21^st century Britain 

Professor Susan- Mary Grant – Mourning Becomes Electra: Women and the Commemoration of the Confederate Dead

Dr Jane Gledhill – Women’s Writing and the First World War

Dr June Balshaw -  We’ll meet again: female reunions and the Second World War

Registration 10-10:30, conference finishes at 3:45

All are  very welcome  to attend,  but please contact us in advance to book a place.

Conference Fee  £8, concessions £4 sixth form students or students of local FE free

For full programme  details and to book contact  Dr Maggie Andrews – via email  m.r.andrews@staffs.ac.uk or phone 01283 841911