Women and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust – keynote by Hilary McGrady, Director-General, National Trust

‘Women and Power: The Women who Shaped the National Trust’ is the
keynote by McGrady, Director-General, National Trust 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: The Women who Shaped the National Trust’ is the keynote by
McGrady, Director-General, National Trust. Speakers: Hilary
McGrady, Director-General, National Trust 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