Highlight Gallery Talk: Letters from the Archive - The Joyce Butler Project

Hear and see letters written from women to Joyce Butler, campaigning to introduce legislation against sex discrimination in women's lives.

Wood Green MP Joyce Butler's campaign to introduce legislation against sex discrimination in education and employment attracted widespread public interest. The letters she received from women across the country provide an exciting window into women's working and family lives during a period of transformational upheaval.

Join Dr Lyndsey Jenkins (Mansfield College - University of Oxford) - the Project Lead, Joyce Butler Project - as she introduces previously unseen letters from the Joyce Butler Archive collection at Bruce Castle Museum & Archive. She discusses what they suggest about women's experiences at work and in the home, as well as the political, social and economic climate of 1960s and 1970s Britain. They cover the impact of immigration, the 'white heat of technology', the rise of the women's liberation movement, and the ongoing problems of poverty.

This event is part of the Joyce Butler Project based at Bruce Castle. The project examines the histories of women's lives, rights and work in post-war Britain.