April 30, 2022 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM at Newington Green Meeting House
This is a hybrid event: tickets are available to attend in person or to access the talks streamed live online. Details here.
Join us for a celebration of the anniversary of the birth of the great feminist thinker, exploring the origins of her revolutionary ideas and their continuing relevance.
We will also be celebrating the re-opening of the Newington Green Meeting House, the oldest Non-Conformist place of worship in London. Following extensive renovation sponsored by the National Heritage Lottery Fund, this beautiful historic building was relaunched in 2020 as a heritage space dedicated to the legacy of the Dissenters at the birthplace of feminism. Mary Wollstonecraft established a school for girls at Newington Green in 1784, and gained inspiration and support from activists and intellectuals settled in the neighbourhood, including such Dissenting luminaries as Richard Price and Anna Letitia Barbauld.
Talks will explore dissent, both in relation to the community of religious Dissenters in Wollstonecraft’s time and as a key aspect of feminism and progressive politics today.
Speakers: Sandrine Berges, Emma Clery, Alan Coffee, Hannah Dawson, Mary Fairclough, Eileen M. Hunt, Laura Kirkley, Susan Manly, Charlotte May, Catherine Packham, Bee Rowlatt, Kandice Sharren, Janet Todd, Roberta Wedge, and Daisy Hay, who will be discussing her exciting new group biography of Dissenting London, Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age (Chatto & Windus).
There will be an art display, a book stall, free historical walking tours around Newington Green and Stoke Newington, birthday cake, and more…
Activists, enthusiasts, students and scholars – all welcome.
This event is hosted by ‘Newington Green Meeting House: Revolutionary Ideas since 1708,’ with the Mary Wollstonecraft Fellowship and the support of the National Heritage Lottery Fund.