INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2025 TALK

Sat 8 Mar 2025, 11am–12pm

At the Museum and Online

This event takes place at the Museum in the Headley Lecture Theatre, and online via Zoom

Tickets are £8, book below

With Alice Foster, art historian

This talk marks International Women's Day 2025

What occupies a woman’s day? Alice’s talk explores the duties and responsibilities of women at work. From depictions of farm workers and hearth keepers in the Middle Ages by anonymous artists, to picture restorers in the 21st century.

View from my Window by Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) detail

View from my window (detail) Camille Pissarro, 1886–88, oil on canvas

From the earliest days, women participated in brewing, baking, farming and textile weaving. During World War 2 they made armaments; they were researchers in science and the arts and eventually they were allowed to become priests.

All these jobs have been recorded in visual terms sometimes by famous artists such as Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro and Laura Knight, sometimes by less well-known artists.