Description
Join professional archivist and heritage consultant, Jennie Kiff, for a powerful and illuminating talk that brings to light the forgotten women of the suffragette movement.
Based on her PhD research, Kiff has uncovered hundreds of women whose names have been left out of the official histories – ordinary individuals who played extraordinary roles in the fight for women’s rights.
Drawing on stories from across the West Riding, this event sheds new light on how local women, through everyday acts of courage and defiance, helped to transform the course of British history.
About the Speaker
Jennie Kiff
Jennie Kiff is a professional archivist, historian and a heritage consultant who has contributed to a number of projects in Bradford and beyond. She has given talks at various conferences and seminars across the country, as well as talks to historical societies. In addition, she has undertaken research for local community projects and worked as a tutor of the WEA. As part of her professional work as an archivist she has appeared on “Who Do You Think You Are?”. Jennie has just completed her PhD at the University of Lincoln and her research has rediscovered a previously invisible army of suffragettes in Bradford. This has uncovered details of the lives and networks of over two hundred local women who have been overlooked, forgotten and written out of history. Their stories and experiences provide an insight into the grassroots activism of local women and their fight for the vote.
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