History Department Research Seminar Series 2015-2016
Young Women at
University in the
1960s and 1970s
Margaret Drabble
CBE and DBE, independent scholar, award-winning author of 18 novels (The Millstone,
The Peppered Moth), short stories (A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman), biography (Arnold Bennett and
Angus Wilson), literary criticism (The Genius of Thomas Hardy), history (For Queen and Country: Britain in
the Victorian Age), and memoir (The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws), and editor of
The Oxford Companion to English Literature.
Carolyn Steedman
FBA, Emeritus Professor, History Dept, University of Warwick whose publications include:
Landscape for a Good Woman, Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age
and An Everyday Life of the English Working Class.
Wednesday 14th October 2015, 4.30-6.45pm
Wolfson Research Exchange (the Library, 3rd floor)
with refreshments and informal discussion. All are welcome.
Series convened by Professor Maxine Berg, enquiries to: Sheilagh.Holmes@warwick.ac.uk 024 7657 2601