May 30th, 7.00pm. Blackwell’s Oxford, I gave a talk about a century of women, crime and punishment at Holloway Prison, as part of Blackwell’s Every Woman Series, a year long series of events run in conjunction with the Centenary of Women’s Suffrage in the UK. Blackwell’s first opened in 1879. It has four floors and […]
August 30th Cat and Mouse Library, 6.30pm, London N7 I talked about the experiences of the suffragettes at the recently renamed Cat and Mouse Library in Islington, just a stone’s throw away from Holloway Prison. The free talk was part of Islington Museum’s Echoes of Holloway Project. The library has a great display explaining the […]
Sept 13th, Highgate Library, 7.30pm, London N19 5DH ‘Remarkable Women’ – an illustrated talk on both the history of Holloway Prison and the women who inspired Daisy Belle: Champion Swimmer of the World.
September 15th, Southwark Cathedral, London SE1 I gave an illustrated talk on the pioneering women swimmers of Victorian times, and the inspiration behind Daisy Belle. This was part of TotallyThames, the annual festival in tribute to the River Thames.
March 24th, 11.15am-12.15, Southwark Cathedral I took part in a day of talks exploring women’s history to mark a century of women’s suffrage. Speakers included Elizabeth Crawford on the art of suffragette propaganda and Tessa Dunlop on the Century Girls, as well as silent films from the BFI archive.
March 24th, 2-5pm I was part of a panel event exploring the legacy of the suffrage campaign through the eyes of writers today. Panelists included: Elizabeth Crawford, author of Art and Suffrage: a biographical dictionary of suffrage artists, June Purvis, author of Christabel Pankhurst: a Biography, Di Atkinson, author of Rise Up, Women! The Remarkable […]
March 13th, 6.30pm. Islington Town Hall, London Political Freedom Fighters at Holloway, part of International Women’s Day celebrations. Speakers included Di Atkinson on the suffragettes at Holloway, Kim Bonnar on the Irish Republicans, Carol Turner of Labour CND on the women of Greenham and Marj Mayo on community plans for the prison site.
March 10th, 10.00am. Turner Contemporary, Margate ‘100 years and counting!’ A day of talks, debate, and discussion. POW! is a festival of Arts and Culture celebrating and exploring issues around Feminism, Women and Girls. The day kicked off with the experiences of the suffragettes at Holloway Prison.
Caitlin took part in a panel discussion on ‘Gender Behind Bars’ as part of the Women of the World Festival at the Royal Festival Hall. Participants included representatives from Women in Prison, Inquest and the Centre for Criminal Appeals. The focus was on the harm of prison and how to reduce the number of women […]
Bad Girls launched at the London Metropolitan Archives, now home to the Holloway Prison archives. It was fantastic to celebrate the book’s publication on International Women’s Day, alongside those who have lived and worked at Holloway. The audience included relatives of imprisoned suffragettes, a descendant of the Duchess of Sutherland jailed in 1890, and a […]
I gave a talk about the suffragettes and Holloway Prison to current inmates at Downview, Surrey. This was part of Historic England’s HerStories campaign. The women at Downview will be producing suffragette inspired banners, along with artist Lucy Orta and the London College of Fashion, for a mass participation art event this summer.