29/10/2018
We've just been sent details of this fantastic project. Who's up for being involved?
Remembering Resistance: A Century of Women’s Protest in the North of England
Call for participants and citizen researchers
Remembering Resistance: A Century of Women’s Protest in the North of England is a new project from researchers at Lancaster University that is bringing to life the history of women’s protest in the North of England.
Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Remembering Resistance will celebrate, catalogue, and engage the public in women’s efforts to bring about political change over the last 100 years by creating a permanent archive of women’s activism to inspire future generations.
Through a programme of public engagement events and activities, the project will develop a rich picture of when, where, and why women have fought for change to identify the most significant sites of women’s resistance in the North.
The project aims to map the last century of protest by charting the routes that protests took, and the strategies protesters used, as well as collating artefacts associated with protest movements.
The outcome of the project will be integrated into the archives of local museums, and will contribute to their programmes on the struggle for women’s suffrage.
To ensure the voices of women who have been involved in protest are preserved, we want to work with communities, and those involved in activism, to gather oral histories and archival accounts of protest actors, past and present.
We are inviting those who have been involved in protest, activism or campaigning, and who want to share their experiences, to get in touch with the team. We are interested in collecting oral histories from women involved in a wide range of activism, so if you or someone you know was involved in protest or campaigning over the last few decades, get in touch!
An important part of the project involves bringing together a team of volunteer citizen researchers. We’re interested in hearing from people who would like to get involved with the project as a volunteer. The main things we’re looking for are people who are interested in women’s activism, the history of protest in the North of England, or who would like to develop skills in oral history or heritage projects.
To learn more about the project, including how to become a volunteer citizen researcher or an interviewee, please visit the website: www.rememberingresistance.com, follow the project on Twitter or email the team: [email protected]
