Following women in the 19th Century

Saturday 13 March 2010
10.00 am to 4.00 pm

Liz Prideaux
The Struggle for the vote

The campaign to secure the right for women to vote began in the 19th Century. Petitions to Parliament, parliamentary lobbying, demonstrations both peaceful and violent, and a boycott of the 1911 UK census were some of the tactics employed by the suffragists and the suffragettes, however universal female suffrage has still to be achieved world-wide.

Brian Rhule
Women of Virtue and Vice

The talk will include a discussion of contemporary attitudes, women's roles and the emergence of women in to the public spheres of employment and politics. What historical records exist? How can we use these records to help us to locate women who worked in the liquor industry, or who were active in the temperance movement?

Dot Wickham
Who rocked the cradle?

The role women in the development of a Victorian gold mining town. This paper re-examines Victorian goldfields history challenging the commonly held belief that the history of mining belongs to the province of ‘men and machines'. This paper explores the role of women in Victorian gold mining towns in the nineteenth century. Women were intimately bound up in the events and emotions of the Australian gold-rushes.

Dr Margaret Dillon
Breaking their chains: feisty female convicts in the new colonial working class

Originally drafted to the Australian colonies as a domestic labour force, these young women demolished the traditional role of servants; married and nurtured new generations of freedom-loving youth; traded; ran boarding houses and pubs; worked in family businesses and owned property. Out of their labour and lives a new colonial society emerged.

BYO lunch
Booking with payment is essential. Make payment at GSV reception or through online shop
GSV members $30.00 Non-members $40.00