Bronze Ceiling

Four  guests for our fourth episode! Sculptor ⁠Hazel Reeves⁠ is back to discuss her award-winning statue of Emmline Pankhurst, founder of the Women’s Social and Political Union in Manchester in 1903, with Manchester City ⁠Councillor Andrew Simcock⁠ , ⁠Professor Helen Pankhurst⁠ and ⁠Dr Helen Antrobus⁠ (briefly accompanied in the background by her infant daughter, whose views, if not entirely clear...

“And though she be but little, she is fierce” (Helena, A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Act 3, scene 2). This is how our three guests today - activist Susan Munro, historian Maureen Wright , and sculptor Hazel Reeves - describe the woman whose statue they unveiled on International Women’s Day 2022 on Congleton High Street, the impressive yet insufficiently known suffragist Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy. ...

Sculptor Christine Charlesworth is back to discuss her statue of Dame Ethel Smyth, composer of the suffragette anthem “The March of the Women”, erected in Woking on International Women’s Day in 2022. She is joined by two other members of “Team Ethel”: Riëtte Thomas, project manager for Woking Borough Council, and Christopher Wiley , Head of Music and Media at the University of Surrey.  Useful link...

For our first episode we talk to Christine Charlesworth , the artist commissioned to make a statue to the militant suffragette Emily Wilding Davison in Epsom, home to the famous derby where she tragically lost her life in 1913. Useful links about things discussed The Statue : you can read a brief entry on the statue on our crowd-sourced map here .  Global news: Emily Davison’s tragic passing made...

Wondering what Bronze Ceiling is about? This short trailer explains all (but if you're in a real hurry, the basics are below) Sneak Peak Bronze Ceiling is the podcast series of HerStory Maps, a citizen-science project aiming to map the sites of feminist memory everywhere in the world. The current map is ⁠here⁠ but a much more user-friendly and content rich one (including these podcasts, as wel...