Women and Power: Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves – keynote by Melissa Benn, Writer and Campaigner

'Women and Power: Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves’ is the
keynote by the writer and campaigner Melissa Benn at the Women and
Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019.
Women and Power: Redressing the Balance was a 2-day conference,
jointly convened by the National Trust and the University of
Oxford, which took place on the 6th and 7th March 2019 at St Hugh’s
College in Oxford. The conference brought together professionals
from across the academic and heritage sectors to reflect on
programming around the 2018 centenary of the Representation of the
People Act which granted some women the right to vote and to look
to the future of researching and programming women’s histories. The
conference featured papers from a range of heritage, cultural and
academic institutions who marked the centenary anniversary. Many of
the programmes, exhibitions and events that responded to the
centenary not only explored the stories of 100 years ago but openly
questioned the representation of women’s lives in the histories
inherited by curators and researchers, and experienced in public
life, today. ‘Women and Power: Changing the Stories We Tell
Ourselves’ is the keynote by the writer and campaigner Melissa
Benn. Speakers: Prof Senia Paseta, Associate Professor of Modern
History and Women in Humanities Programme Co-Director, University
of Oxford (Introduction) Melissa Benn, Writer and Campaigner For
more information about the Women and Power conference and the
National Trust Partnership at the University of Oxford please
visit: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/national-trust-partnership