This episode is part of a special series to celebrate International Women’s Day.
In this episode, we talk to Jill Taylor Roe, Director of Academic Services and University Librarian at Newcastle University. Jill explores the lives of two incredible women who have shaped Newcastle’s past, Dr Ethel Williams and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. Learn about how these women have impacted Newcastle University and the North East.
Discover more about Dr Ethel Williams:
The North’s Forgotten Female Reformers: https://speccollstories.ncl.ac.uk/The-Norths-Forgotten-Female-Reformers/
Watch this short film of a suffragette demonstration in Newcastle 1909. One of the banners in the film may be the one made by Dr Ethel Williams in about 1905.
View photographs, including Ethel’s motorcar and banner at CollectionsCaptured:
https://collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/collection/p21051coll27/id/2/rec/15
https://collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/collection/p21051coll27/id/7/rec/11
Discover more about Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen:
View Sirkka’s photographs including ‘Girl on a Spacehopper’: https://www.amber-online.com/collection/byker-revisited/
Purchase a copy of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s book ‘Byker’ at: https://www.waterstones.com/book/byker/sirkka-liisa-konttinen/9781911306856