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Dr Katherine Bradley – No Corsets! The Rational Dress Movement Comes to Oxford
10th October 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Dr Katherine Bradley is a retired university lecturer. She taught modern European and British history at Oxford Brookes University and the Open University. She was also a tutor at Denman College (the Women’s Institute College), where she taught women’s history. In addition, she founded and co-ordinated the Oxford International Women’s Festival. Over the last 35 years this has celebrated women’s achievements as well as campaigned for local women’s issues. Since her retirement she has given talks to a variety of local groups. Her talks focus and combine her long-term interests with 19th and 20th century local history and women’s history.
Have you ever wondered how women’s clothes changed from the crinoline and bustle to the simple clothes that women wear now? During the 19th and early 20th centuries a women’s movement developed throughout Britain, most notably concerned with women’s suffrage. Another section of this movement were women and men concerned with dress and how this hampered women’s emancipation. This talk will examine the development of this movement, its links with the suffrage movement, employment and education.