From a factory worker’s cottage in Somerset to the Cabinet table and the White House dining room - how did Margaret Bondfield do it?

We are thrilled to welcome Nan Sloane to Zoom to celebrate the launch of her new biography on “Margaret Bondfield: The Life and Times of Britain's First Female Cabinet Minister.”  

Nan will share insights into Margaret’s remarkable life of activism, peace campaigning, and trade unionism – which all came with a good dollop of feminism.

Nan will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the process of capturing such a formidable legacy on paper, and the difficulties in uncovering new archive materials that give a more complete version of Margaret’s life.

We are also pleased that Nan will be interviewed by Kiran Mahil, LWN secretary and history buff!

Kiran has a genuine love for feminist history and its always a joy to get Nan and Kiran together to discuss women in our movement.

Register below to join us on Thursday 5^th March at 8pm for this amazing event.

You are able to pre-order Nan’s book HERE and currently there is a pre-order discount.

About our guests

Nan Sloane is an author, speaker and LWN trainer. Her published books include Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries, and The Women In the Room: Labour’s Forgotten History. A member of the LWN Committee since 2007, she is the architect of the LWN Political School and the Jo Cox Women in Leadership Scheme. Outside of the UK she has delivered training in the Balkans, in Middle East and North African countries, as well as in Ghana, Botswana and South Africa. She was previously Regional Director of Yorkshire & Humber Labour, and Director of the Centre for Women & Democracy. 

Kiran Mahil was elected Secretary of LWN in 2019. Originally from the West Midlands, Kiran works as an Assistant Head Teacher in an East End secondary school. She is passionate about embedding inclusion and resilience in education.  She was previously National Women's Officer for the Labour Party, and an advisor to Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, where she worked to reveal the disproportionate impact of austerity on women, and is a graduate of the Jo Cox Women in Leadership Scheme.

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