The 2007 lecture (17 August 2007, Wortley Hall, Sheffield) was given by Professor Sheila Rowbotham, author.

Entitled “Sex, Sun and Socialism – (near Sheffield): Edward Carpenter 1844 to 1929”, you can download the flyer here.

The 2006 lecture (18 August 2006) was given by Rita Pankhurst, academic and campaigner.

Entitled “Sylvia Pankhurst and Ethiopia”, you can download it here, and click here for a brief biography of Rita.

Friday 30 September, 7.30pm, at Wortley Hall, Sheffield

WHY WOMEN NEED SOCIALISM

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Given by Gloria Mills, President of the TUC, and a Vice-President of the National Assembly of Women

Sylvia Pankhurst and the Spanish Civil War

given by Richard Pankhurst, Professor of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University

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Below: Barbara Switzer and Richard Pankhurst

Class, Race and Gender given by Professor Mary Davis, Labour Historian, head of the Centre for Trade Union Studies at London Metropolitan University, and author of “Sylvia Pankhurst, a life in radical politics”

Download the text of Professor Davis’ lecture (16pp pdf file)