Events
Public Appearances
2020
Oct 1
Princes Risborough U3A
Ladies Can't Climb Ladders
May 13
Chalfont St Giles Literary Festival
Ladies Can't Climb Ladders
Apr 22
The Sir Hugh Ford Management Lecture, Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Ladies Can't Climb Ladders
Apr 2
Thame U3A,
Ladies Can't Climb Ladders
Mar 13
The National Archives
Ladies Can't Climb Ladders
Jan 23
Launch of Ladies Can't Climb Ladders: the Pioneering Adventures of the first Professional Women
2019
24 Oct
Friends of North Leigh Library, A Force to be Reckoned With https://m.facebook.com/Friends-of-North-Leigh-Library
20 Oct
140th birthday panel discussion, Somerville College Oxford; other speakers include Professor Louise Richardson (Vice Chancellor), Dame Esther Rantzen, Dame Fiona Caldicott, Baroness Shirley Williams, Baroness Jan Royall, Dr Alice Prochaska https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/event/somerville-140-birthday-celebration/
18 Sep
City of London School, Bluestockings
14 Sep
Winchester Discovery Centre, A Force to be Reckoned With
16 Apr
Stone Local History Society, Hearts and Minds
11 Apr
Talk at Lincoln's Inn, Ladies Can't Climb Ladders
19 Mar
West Kent Federation of Women's Institutes, Hearts and Minds
7 Mar
Townswomen’s Guilds International Women’s Day Event, Hearts and Minds
21 Feb
Royal Holloway College Women in Engineering event, Ladies Can't Climb Ladders
10 Jan
Launch of the paperback edition of Hearts and Minds
3 Jan
Risborough WI, Hearts and Minds
2018
31 Dec
'Amo Amas Amusical' BBC Radio 4, 4pm with Professor Dame Mary Beard.
5 Dec
Hedgerley Historical Society, Hearts and Minds
29 Nov
Probus Club of Beaconsfield, tbc
20 Nov
Battersea WI, Hearts and Minds
17 Nov
BARTS High Wycombe, Hearts and Minds
23 Oct
W. Sussex Federation of Women’s Institutes, Hearts and Minds
20 Oct
Somerville College Literary Lunch, Hearts and Minds
19 Oct
Thame Arts and Literature Festival, Hearts and Minds
18 Oct
Cakes & Revolution WI, Suffolk, A Force to be Reckoned With
14 Oct
Off the Shelf Festival, Sheffield, Hearts and Minds
10 Oct
WI North East London, Hearts and Minds
29 Sep
Marlborough Literary Festival, Hearts and Minds
27 Sep
Lincoln Literary Festival, Hearts and Minds
15 Sep (pm)
St Hugh’s College, Oxford, women pioneers in the professions
15 Sep (am)
Winchester, Hearts and Minds
12 Sep
Kingston Grammar School Prize-giving
18 Aug
Edinburgh International Book Festival (with Diane Atkinson), Hearts and Minds
20 July
Notts Federation of Women’s Institutes Literary Lunch, Hearts and Minds
18 July (pm)
Stony Stratford, Hearts and Minds
18 July (am)
Denman College, Hearts and Minds
13 July
Ways with Words, Dartington, Hearts and Minds
8 July
Lichfield Festival, Hearts and Minds
https://www.lichfieldfestival.org/events-in-lichfield/talk-hearts-minds/
27 June
Opening of the ‘Voice & Vote’ exhibition at the Houses
of Parliament. (I have written a piece on suffragists for the accompanying publication.)
https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/vote-100/voice-and-vote/
12 June
Wycombe Abbey School, Hearts and Minds
8 June
National Portrait Gallery, Hearts and Minds
7 June
Stoke on Trent Festival, Hearts and Minds
https://festivalinafactory.co.uk/
29 May
BBC local radio interviews about the Great Pilgrimage with reference to the reproduction suffrage caravan
25 May
BBC Breakfast interview and film of a reproduction suffrage caravan at Oldham
24 May
Books at the Barn (Hampshire), Hearts and Minds
http://www.booksatthebarn.co.uk/shop/jane-robinson/
23 May
Haddenham U3A, Hearts and Minds
20 May
Chalfont St Giles & Jordans Festival, Hearts and Minds http://www.chalfontstgilesliteraryfestival.org.uk/2018-speakers/jane-robinson/
19 May
Charleston Literary Festival, Hearts and Minds (with Helen Pankhurst https://www.charleston.org.uk/festival/whats-on-charleston-festival/
14 May
Haddenham Rotary Club, Hearts and Minds
12 May
Chipping Campden Literary Festival, Hearts and Minds
http://www.campdenlitfest.co.uk/type27e/saturday-12-may-2018/
11 May
Dulwich Literary Festival, Hearts and Minds
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jane-robinson-hearts-and-minds-tickets-43685275836
10 May
Brighton College Education Conference, Hearts and Minds
8 May
National Archives, Kew. Hearts and Minds
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/suffrage-100-hearts-and-minds-tickets-42871556981
1 May
Round Table Discussion, Somerville College, Oxford, Hearts and Minds (with Helen Pankhurst)
14 Apr
Cambridge Literary Festival, Hearts and Minds (with Helen Pankhurst)
9 Apr
Keighley & District FHS, In the Family Way
27 Mar
Lancashire Archives, Preston, Hearts and Minds
26 Mar
Portcullis House, Westminster. Hearts and Minds
25 Mar
Aye Write Festival, Glasgow, Hearts and Minds (with Helen Pankhurst)
24 Mar
March of the Women Festival, Woking, Hearts and Minds
21 Mar
Haddenham Library, Hearts and Minds
12 Mar
Words by the Water Literary Festival, Keswick,
Hearts and Minds
8 Mar
Tough Girl Podcast https://www.toughgirlchallenges.com/single-post/Jane-Robinson
8 Mar
BBC Radio 3 ‘Free Thinking’, Hearts and Minds https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09th2dt
8 Feb
Newcastle University, Hearts and Minds
6 Feb
ITV Borders interview, Hearts and Minds
6 Feb
S. Hampstead High School, Hearts and Minds
6 Feb
Sky News, Hearts and Minds
5 Feb
BBC Radio Newcastle with Jo Lonsdale, Hearts and Minds
3 Feb
BBC Parliament ‘Book Talk’ (TV), Hearts and Minds
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09sdk7m
3 Feb
BBC Radio 4 ‘Today Programme’, In the Family Way
BBC Radio 4 ‘Archive on Four’, In the Family Way https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09q9zgc/broadcasts
26 Jan
Blackwells, Oxford, Hearts and Minds
15 Jan
BBC 5Live with Emma Barnett
11 Jan
Launch of Hearts and Minds. The Women’s Library,
LSE, London
8 Jan
BBC Radio 4 ‘Start the Week’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09kxq2p
8 Jan
BBC Radio London with Jo Goode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05rp95t
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