It's the Women's Suffrage edition of the British Heritage Travel podcast series! BHT's Amy Griggs speaks with Melanie Unwin and Dr. Mari Takayanagi, co-curators and joint project managers of the Houses of Parliament's Vote 100 project, which marks the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act 1918.
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To help celebrate (almost) 100 years of women having the vote in Britain, we'll be sending ten blu-ray DVDs of the movie Suffragette (starring Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep, partly filmed on location at the Houses of Parliament) to the first ten people who either submit a photo or just leave us a comment about this podcast at [email protected]. (Add "Podcast" in your subject line!)
Click here for BHT Podcast: Houses of Parliament, Part 2.
Melanie Unwin is the Deputy Curator of Works of Art for the Parliamentary Art Collection. She has worked at Parliament for 11 years. She was previously at the National Sound Archive at the British Library, where she collected and curated oral history recordings with artists, designers, and architects. Prior to that time, she was an academic, teaching art and design history.
Dr. Mari Takayanagi is a senior archivist at the Parliamentary Archives and an historian with a particular interest in women and Parliament in the early 20th century. Her doctoral thesis, "Parliament and Women c.1900-1945," considered how legislation affected women's lives, gender equality, women's roles on Parliamentary committees, and the history of women staff in Parliament. She is a registered archivist and has worked at Parliament for over 14 years. She was previously an archivist at the London School of Economics.
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