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2010 Ursula Masson Memorial Lecture and Book Launch
Professor June Hannam of the University of the West of England will give the second Ursula Masson Memorial Lecture at 6.00 pm on International Women’s Day, Monday 8th March 2010, in the Glamorgan Conference Centre at the University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, under the auspices of the Glamorgan Centre for Gender Studies in Wales.
The topic of her lecture will be:
Writing To History: Autobiographies of the First Labour Women MPs
We will also on this occasion be launching Dr Masson’s book:
‘For Women, For Wales AND For Liberalism’:
Women In Liberal Politics in Wales 1880–1914 (University of Wales Press)
Dr Ursula Masson (1945–2008), Lecturer and subsequently Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Glamorgan from 1994 to 2008, was the author of a number of journal articles and book chapters on Welsh women’s history, and edited ‘Women’s Rights and Womanly Duties: The Aberdare Women’s Liberal Association, 1891–1910 (South Wales Record Society, 2005), Elizabeth Andrews’ A Woman’s Work is Never Done (Honno Press, 2006), and The Very Salt of Life: Welsh Women’s Political Writings from Chartism to Suffrage (Honno Press, 2007). She was involved in setting up and chairing the Welsh Women’s Archive, and initiated its highly successful Roadshows; she also chaired the West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network, and co-edited Llafur: Journal of the Welsh People’s History Society.
The lecture and launch are open to the general public as well as members of the University, Llafur, the Women’s History Network and the Welsh Women’s Archive. Refreshments will be served from 5.30 pm, and following the lecture the audience will be welcomed to a buffet in the Centre, free of charge (but donations to the Ursula Masson Memorial Fund will be gratefully accepted: please make cheques payable to the University of Glamorgan). RSVP to Jane Aaron: jaaron@glam.ac.uk or tel: 01443 482657.