Women and Power: Redressing the Balance – closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust

The closing remarks by Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme
Curator, 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. This film captures the closing remarks by Helen
Antrobus, National Public Programme Curator, National Trust at the
Women and Power conference which took place on the 6th and 7th
March 2019. Speakers: Helen Antrobus, National Public Programme
Curator, 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