Venue: School of Oriental and African Studies, Univ of London
Wednes 6 Dec
Chair: Sarah Tyacke, Keeper of Public Record
Anna Davin (Middx Univ): 'Meaning in the sources';
Frances Harris (BL): 'Reconstructing female communities: court women
of early modern England';
Jan Marsh: 'Nineteenth-century biography'.
AGM of the BRA
Thurs 7 Dec
Catherine Hall: 'Reading against the grain: gendering the colonial archive';
Janet Nelson (King's College): 'Parchment and palimpsest: making medieval women
visible';
Anne Laurence (Open University): 'Early modern religious sources for the
history of women and of women's religion';
Sue Macgregor of BBC Radio 4 will interview Sally Thompson who is writing an
anniversary history of Woman's Hour.
Panel discussion (Sally Alexander [Univ of East London], Jane Lewis
[LSE/Oxford], Dorothy Sheridan [Sussex Univ]) chaired by Anne Summers (BL).
Members of British Records Association L45 (L15 per session), non-members L60
(L20 per session), students/unwaged L30 (L10 per session).
Lunch: 6 Dec L5-50 and 7 Dec L8.
Contact: Conference Organiser, British Records Association, 18 Padbury Court,
London E2 7EH.
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