Stop Press: The best books on women's history that inspired me
Why am I passionate about these books? I am a feminist author, having written about women's history for nearly half a century. Living in Oldham, I began researching the history of the radical suffragists across industrial Lancashire. Later, moving across the Pennines to Halifax, I learnt of Anne Lister – and became gripped by her diaries. Read more
Vote 100 Audio Visual
Women's Freedom League blue plaque.
English Heritage, London, 1000th blue plaque.
Jill's talk on the Women's Freedom League: 16 mins.
Full podcast: 43 mins. Sept 2023. Audio.
Reflecting on Suffrage History across four Decades. Cambridge University, Conference on Suffrage & Political Activism. Feb 2018, audio-video 2019.
History and Citizenship Resources for Schools
Podcast, Nov 2018. Working-class Women in the Suffrage Movement.
Leeds Suffrage Stories
Podcast, June 2017: Isabella Ford, Mary Gawthorpe, Leonora Cohen.
What do Women do in Archives?
Talk in House of Commons, Nov 2016.
Podcast, April 2017: Archives & Records Association.
‘Reflecting on suffrage research across four decades’.
Rebels in the Archives - intro (2 mins)
British Library suffrage panel, Mar 2017.
Rebels in the Archives - British Library podcast (1 hour 20 mins), audio, live streaming.
The Radical North
R4, Melvyn Bragg, recorded at Newton Heath, Hannah Mitchell’s Manchester home, Sept 2016.
Vanishing for the vote: suffragette boycott of 1911 census
Audio, National Archives, Mar 2015.
Vanishing for the vote: suffragette boycott of 1911 census
Podcast, Houses of Parliament, with Pat Thane & Elizabeth Crawford, May 2014.
Suffragette census boycott
Woman’s Hour, R4, April 2014.
Did the suffragettes boycott the 1911 census?
Woman’s Hour, R4, recorded in the House of Commons, Mar 2011.
The Things We Forgot to Remember: suffragettes
R4, Michael Portillo, recorded in Leeds City Hall, Dec 2007.
The Archive Hour, R4, Pennine Productions, March 2002.
Note:
These suffrage audiovisual and audio recordings are listed chronologically. However, digital recordings were less available 10 or 15 years ago. So my earlier suffrage radio & film is under-represented here ~ about One Hand Tied Behind Us, about the radical suffragists, and especially, about Selina Cooper. For a more balanced record of my suffrage research across four decades, please go to Publications page.
For Anne Lister audio visual, go to: Anne Lister.