Your Stories Matter: Women’s Stories In Coventry Archives

Description

Interested in women’s history in Coventry and your place in it? Which stories are preserved and what is missing?

In this hands-on workshop we invite women to contribute to the history of Coventry for the generations to come. Explore creative writing to respond to the stories we find in the Archives and think about what you might want to leave as your own record. 
Join writer and academic Ruth Livesey and Archive Manager Victoria Northridge in exploring how the history of women in Coventry is represented in the Archives, from the earliest of times, to the Victorian age, and the great redevelopment of Coventry in the 1950s and 60s.

Our workshop is inspired by local female artists who break the mould, from writer George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans), whose novel Middlemarch is a fictional version of women’s lives in nineteenth-century Coventry, and composer Delia Derbyshire, the electronic music pioneer, best known for the theme tune to Dr Who.

Period	12 Mar 2022
Event type	Workshop
Location	CoventryShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Local