The lecture will be followed by light refreshments. Sponsored by the Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Committee, the National Assembly of Women, and Wortley Hall. She also brings history to modern cycling advocacy, working with a number of organisations such as CyclingUK. Much of her work focuses on the importance of bicycles to the Edwardian suffrage campaign. Her research has been featured on BBC radio and TV, and published in journals and magazines. She completed her PhD at York University, Toronto and held a Vera Douie Research Fellowship at The Women’s Library. We’ll ride along with lady cyclists from the golden age of the tricycle to the everyday use of safety bicycles with a few surprises along the way.ĭr Sheila Hanlon is an historian specialising in the history of women’s cycling, particularly as it intersects gender politics from Victorian times to today. Sylvia Pankhurst, an avid cyclist, will be at the centre of the narrative from her early days learning to ride with the Clarion Cycling Club to the adaptation of the bicycle into the battle for the vote for women and beyond. The talk will focus on the integration of the bicycle into the Edwardian suffrage campaign as a form of transportation, protest and spectacle. In this illustrated lecture, Dr Sheila Hanlon will trace the history and politics of women’s cycling from Victorian times to today. Saturday 11 August, 7:00-10:00pm, Wortley Hall “Pedalling Days: Sylvia Pankhurst and political cycling traditions, from Clarionettes to Suffragettes”Ī Cycling to Suffrage Lecture by Dr Sheila Hanlon There will be several bike rides in varying distances during the day to get you on your bike and ready for the talk! The talk and rides are part of the campaign to support a new statue of Sylvia Pankhurst in Clerkenwell.įor more details and to register please contact or on Twitter. Refreshments and further discussion to follow. The 2018 Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture takes place on Saturday 16 August, 7:00pm at Wortley Hall near Sheffield. I’ll be delivering a Cycling to Suffrage Talk with a focus on how cycling was part of Sylvia Pankhurst’s personal and political life. I’m honoured to be the guest speaker for the 2018 Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture. Cycling and suffrage intersected in Sylvia’s personal and political life. Sylvia’s cycling world included rides with her family, the politics of the Clarion Cycling Club and campaigning for the vote with the cycling suffragettes. Much less is known about her participation in another progressive activity with a political edge cycling. Sylvia Pankhurst’s important legacy as a leading suffrage and human rights campaigner is beginning to get the recognition it deserves. With the Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial statue campaign in full swing and the centennial of the 1918 Representation of the People Act being celebrated, it is an honour to be addressing cycling and suffrage as the 2018 Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecturer. “Pedalling Days: Sylvia Pankhurst and Political Cycling Traditions from Clarionettes to Suffragettes” The topic was “Pedalling Days: Sylvia Pankhurst and Political Cycling Traditions from Clarionettes to Suffragettes.” Previous speakers have included Dr Helen Pankhurst and Dr Richard Pankhurst.Īs an exciting addition to the lecture, Pedal4Pankhurst organised sponsored rides to fundraise for the statue of Sylvia that will soon be erected in Clerkenwell Green. You can support the Sylvia Statue by visiting the Just Giving fundraising page.Ĭurious about Sylvia’s cycling connections? You can read an abbreviated summary of the talk below. The Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Lecture 2018 took place at Wortley Hall, near Sheffield before a packed audience. Through her accomplishments in cycle racing and dress reform, Tessie Reynolds made an important contribution to women’s emancipation. To discoverTessie’s story read “Record Breaking Brighton Cyclist Tessie Reynolds” on the Brighton Museums blog.įor more on Tessie’s amazing accomplishment, see my article “ Tessie Reynolds: The Stormy Petrel in the Struggle for Women’s Equality in Cycling Racing and Dress.” To mark world Cycling Day on June 3rd, I contributed a piece about teenage cycling sensation Tessie Reynolds who smashed the Brighton to London and back record in 1893. The exhibit ran February 15th-June 7th 2020 but has been extended online.Īs a companion to the exhibit the Brighton Museum Blog launched, “100 Pioneering Women of Sussex.” Posts by staff and guest writers dig deep into local women’s history. Portraits range from Lady Hale of the Supreme Court, to football manager Hope Powell, to musician Suzi Quatro. Tessie Reynolds, a long-forgotten cycling athlete from the late Victorian era, has returned to the spotlight through Brighton Museums.īrighton Museums “100 First Women Portraits” celebrates women’s accomplishments through the photography of Anita Corbin.
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