Economic History Society Women’s Committee

 17^th Annual Workshop

 Women and Business

11 November 2006

Room 311, the Michael Sadler Building

Leeds University

Conference Papers and Abstracts

10.15-11.45       Early career session 1: Societies and Networks

Nicola Reader

Women and management: the case of the female friendly societies 1780-1850

Nicole Robertson

‘A good deal … and a good deal more’. Co-operative societies and their female members 1914-45

Helen McCarthy

‘We have learned to dine’: professional and businesswomen’s networks in inter-war Britain

12.00-1.00         Women and Investment

Judith Spicksley

Women, credit and interest in early modern England: the case of the maiden investor

Josephine Maltby

Women’s investment in Great Britain 1870-1930

1.00-1.45          Lunch

1.45-2.15          Women’s Committee meeting: everyone welcome

2.15- 3.15         Early career session 2: Female Enterprise

Stephanie Wyse

‘A wholly unrepresented body of the people?’ Making New Zealand businesswomen count: the case of Wellington and Dunedin, c.1890-1920

Clare Rose

Dressing the ‘New Woman’ in the 1890s: Noble’s 10s costumes

3.15-3.30          Tea

3.30- 5.00         Women and Business

Beverly Lemire

Commercial culture and domestic practice: or, giving English homes a business turn, 1600-1900

Alison Kay

Home, household and networks of support for metropolitan women in business, London 1851-61

Maggie Walsh