UPCOMING: DATE FOR YOUR DIARY
Theresa by Julia Pascal 7.00pm 19 June 2024, Burgh House, London NW3 1LT
After three sold-out performances in 2023 and 2024, Pascal Theatre Company returns by popular demand with Theresa to mark Refugee Week. This semi-staged reading of a major drama reveals how Jewish refugees were betrayed to the Nazis on British soil. The performance will be followed by a Q & A.
Writer and Director: Julia Pascal
Cast includes: Fiz Marcus, Michal Horowicz, Milo Maris.
Composer and sound designer: Flick Isaac Chilton
WOMEN FOR WOMEN: 19TH CENTURY WOMEN IN BLOOMSBURY
To celebrate International Woman’s Day and Women’s History Month, Pascal Theatre Company produced a series of inspiring talks.
Can you recognise these women and places? (credits below)
Assistant Director: Conrad Cohen
AGNES & RHODA GARRRET, MILLICENT FAWCETT, FANNY WILKINSON
Gower Street’s ‘Enterprising Women’: transforming the home, the land, and politics, 1875-1928.
Historian Elizabeth Crawford introduced entrepreneurs Agnes Garrett and her cousin Rhoda Garrett, Agnes’s sister activist Millicent Fawcett, and their remarkable neighbour Fanny Wilkinson. We learned how the Garrett duo set up a successful interior decorator design company, Fawcett campaigned for women’s rights and Wilkinson became the first qualified female landscape gardener in England who we can thank her for designing many of London’s green spaces.
It was so interesting. Opens up many vistas. –Olivia Ackhurst, 2024
GEORGINA WELDON
A Most Unlikely Victorian Celebrity: Georgina Weldon, talented singer turned political activist, campaigned for changes to the Lunacy laws her husband was using to try to commit her to an asylum. Emily Midorikawa’s sense of drama brought the twists and turns of Weldon’s story to life.
What a brilliant night. –Lee Eastbrook, 2024
Read a transcript of the talk here:
MARY STEWART
The First Lady Almoner (medical social worker): Mary Stewart: Dr Lynsey Cullen shared her insight into Stewart’s role and the circumstances of the patients she encountered from examination of Stewart’s Report Book.
An excellent speaker and very engaging. We all learnt a lot about history that was largely unknown to us – which is brilliant! –Jo Webb, 2024
A video of this online talk is here:
JANE CHESSAR
A Victorian Feminist in Bloomsbury: remembering the educational life and networks of educationalist Jane Agnes Chessar who we can credit for the professionalisation of teacher training and better educational opportunities for girls in 19th century England. Professor Jane Martin engaged in conversation with Melissa Benn at the Institute of Education.
A fascinating insight into an important woman and discussion of burning issues in the provision of education. –Catalin Garabet, 2024
Check the handout accompanying the talk:
Credits:
1. Rhoda and Agnes Garrett, 2. Georgina Weldon: Elliott & Fry, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, L0003246
3. College of Preceptors, Bloomsbury Square. Credit: COP/M/9, image courtesy of UCL Special Collections, IOE Archives)
4. Royal Free Hospital, Grey’s Inn Road. Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org Royal Free Hospital, Grey’s Inn Road. front of building. Building News Published: 1898 Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/,
OCTOBER 2024 PROGRAMME
October 2024 sees the 150th anniversary of the London School of Medicine for Women and the 175th anniversary of the opening of Ladies’ College/Bedford College. Watch out for our next series of talks in October here:
Keep updated on 19th century women in Bloomsbury who should be celebrated: