Women’s History
S C O T L A N D
2013 Annual Conference
Centre for Nordic Studies, UHI, Kirkwall, Orkney
3-4 May 2013
Making, Creating, Producing:
Historical Perspectives on Women, Gender & Production
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Friday 3 May
Afternoon: History Trail: a guided walk around Kirkwall, meet at the Cathedral in
Kirkwall at 1.30 p.m.
Venue – Orkney College
3.00-4.30
Deborah Reid (Edinburgh) Edinburgh School of gardening for women: petticoats to
professionals?
Cathryn R. Spence (Guelph) ‘The Art and Craft of Perling: Young Women and Craft
Production in Early Modern Edinburgh’
5pm Sue Innes Memorial Lecture : Elizabeth Ewan (Research Professor of Scottish
History, University of Guelph, Canada) - 'Producing Women in Pre-modern Scotland`
followed by Civic reception - Orkney Island Council Chambers at 6.30pm
Saturday 4 May
Venue: Orkney College, Kirkwall
9.30-10.00am Registration and Coffee
10.00-11.00 am
A1
Inger Lauridsen (Denmark)Working and living conditions of Danish female lacemakers
in the 18th. and the 19th. centuries
Sadie Hough (RCA/V&A): Dressing Labour: women, workwear and factory production,
Britain 1960-1982
B1:
Sian Reynolds, The Road to Stromness pier: Margaret Gardiner, Science, Politics and Art
Jocelyn Rendall, Set a stout heart to a stey brae, two Balfour wives and and 18th-century
Orkney estate.
11.00-1.00
A2:
Alison McCall (Dundee): Needlework in Victorian Education: Creative Art or Drudgery?
Nanna Damsholt (Denmark), Needlework seen as part of women's production and the
production of a national identity'
Stephen Knott (Crafts Study Centre, Surrey): 'Troublesome teddies: the production of
handicraft soft toys by women'
B2:
Sierra Dye (Guelph): Consumers and producers – chapbooks and women in Scottish
Society
Piers Crocker (Stavanger): Women and the Norwegian Canning Industry
Jill DeFresnes ‘Our Herring Adventures’ : The work of women in the herring fishing
industry of Scotland and Iceland in the C20th
1.00-2.00 Buffet Lunch
2.00-3.30 pm
A3
Jennifer Lane Lee (Liverpool), What shall we have for dinner? Women, foraging and the
evolution of meaning
Jo Stanley, Southern women service workers as enforced tourists in Orkney in WW2
B3
Carol Christiansen (Shetland Museum): Shetland Vadmal
Kate Wilson (Bath Spa): Women Potters of Barvas, Isle of Lewis
Rebecca Keyel (Wisconsin): Victory Knitting- American Knitters on the Home Front
3.30-3.45 Tea
3.45-5.00
A4
Michael James (UHI): Women and Wages in the Western Isles: the gendered valuation of
labour in the Hebrides 1770-1815
Beatrice Moring (Cambridge and Helsinki): Women and Production in the Baltic
Archipeligo - gender aspects of family and polyculture
Ann Marwick: Womens work in North Ronaldsay
B4
Linsey Hunter, Agents without agency: female participation in landholding in the AngloScottish Border Region c.1150-1250
Gillian Beattie-Smith (Faculty of Education and Language Studies, Open University):
Identity in the land: Elizabeth Grant of Rothimurchus, a Highland Lady
5.00 Round-up and Concluding Remarks