Women, War and Remembrance

Saturday 13 March 2010

Took place at The National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire

The conference was organised by: The National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire University and The Midlands Region of the Women’s History Network

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.

Speakers :
Professor Susan-Mary Grant
Dr Jane Gledhill
Dr Janis Lomas
Professor Dorothy Sheridan
Dr Lucy Noakes
Dr Debra Marshall
Dr June Balshaw

Download: Conference Programme

WHN Conference 2009

Women’s Life and Leisure in the Twentieth Century

Download: Conference programme