2.00 pm Registration, coffee and tea
2.25 pm Chair Kiri Tunks’ opening remarks
2.35 pm Louise Raw, historian: The Match Women’s Strike
2.50 pm Christine Blower, General Secretary of the NUT: A woman’s place in her union
3.05 pm Sara Jackson, co-author: East London Federation of Suffragettes
3.25 pm Megan Dobney, Secretary of SERTUC: Women, austerity and the role of Unions and TU Councils
3.35 pm Questions and answers
4.20 pm Kate Smurthwaite, comedian and activist
4.50 pm Thank you from the Chair to the hosts and speakers
Interested in learning more about Newham Bookshop and some of the people connected with it? We have four lessons for classroom or family use developed from On the Record’s oral history project centered around Newham Bookshop, Writing and Reading Newham. Click here for full details.
We are proud that Newham Bookshop is LoveReading’s Bookshop of the Month. The article features a Q&A with Vivian Archer, which you can read here.