The 2015 lecture took place at 7pm on Friday 14 August at Wortley Hall, near Sheffield
"Sylvia Pankhurst and opposition to World War One" by Mary Davis
Mary Davis FRSA is Visiting Professor of Labour History at Royal Holloway University of London. She has written, broadcast and lectured widely on women's history, labour history, imperialism and racism.Author Archives: GreenNet
Anti Air War Memorial
The Sylvia Pankhurst Trust organised an unveiling ceremony for the re-furbished Anti Air War Memorial in Woodford Green on 24 October 2014
Many congratulations to them and to those who participated (Susan Homewood, Katherine Connelly, Iain Duncan Smith, Linda Perham and Bruce Kent [pictured below])
2014 Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture
The 2014 lecture took place on Friday 15 August at Wortley Hall, near Sheffield
The Militant Suffragette as a Militant Artist was given by Hester Reeve, multi-disciplinary artist (pictured below left, with collaborator Olivia Plender)
The text of the lecture is available here
2013 Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture
The 2013 lecture took place on Friday 16 August at Wortley Hall, near Sheffield
Women and the 1913 Dublin Lockout: British solidarity, Sylvia’s part in that including her visit to Ireland in 1914 was given by Theresa Moriarty, labour historian (pictured below)
2012 Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture
The 2012 lecture took place on Friday 17 August at Wortley Hall, near Sheffield.
Divide and Rule – the oldest tactic in the book was given by Sarah Veale.
Download a pdf of the lecture here.
House of Lords activities
First of all, the Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee is delighted to welcome The Rt Hon The Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde (Brenda Dean) as a Patron of our campaign to erect a statue of Sylvia Pankhurst, and equally, to thank her for organising a showing of the WORLDwrite film on the life of Sylvia to supporters at the House of Lords on 6 December 2011.
Amongst those attending was Baron Bach of Lutterworth (Willie Bach) – not only a supporter of the campaign, but his great-aunt, Emmeline Goulden, married into the Pankhurst family and became one of the leaders of the suffragette campaign that led to women being given the vote. Before the film he shared some of his memories and memorabilia of his family’s involvement in that vital campaign.
Parliamentary bodies have a key role to play in granting permission for the statue to be placed on the Committee’s chosen site on College Green and we also warmly welcome the engagement of key cross-party support in the House of Lords evidenced by this event.
pictured: Brenda Dean with Committee member Barbara Switzer
2011 Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture
The 2011 lecture took place on Friday 12 August at Wortley Hall, near Sheffield.
“Suffrage campaigners on the ocean wave” was given by Dr Jo Stanley FRHistS.
Download a pdf of the slides Jo’s lecture was based on here.
Professor Pankhurst’s address on the 50th anniversary of Sylvia Pankhurst’s death
2010 is the 50th anniversary of Sylvia’s death in Addis Ababa. You can download Richard Pankhurst’s address, given in Addis Ababa on the 17 October 2010 here.
2010 Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture
The 2010 lecture took place on Friday 13 August 2010 at Wortley Hall, Sheffield.
Irene Cockroft, exhibition curator, author and lecturer, spoke on How the Vote was Won illustrated with wonderful slides.
Once more the lecture room was full – you can download and read the lecture here.
Above: Irene Cockroft with Richard and Rita Pankhurst after the lecture at Wortley Hall
2009 Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture
The 2009 lecture took place on Friday 21 August 2009 at Wortley Hall, Sheffield.
Dr Jacqueline Mulhallen’s lecture was titled “Artist and Political Campaigner” and was illustrated with slides from her personal collection, showing Sylvia’s early works of women workers from the last century (brief biography of Dr Mullhallen here).
The lecture room was full and Jacqueline’s talk was extremely well received by all present. You can download an abbreviated version of Jacqueline’s lecture here.
Above: Dr Jacqueline Mulhallen with Richard and Rita Pankhurst after the lecture at Wortley Hall