*Registration is required for this event.

Please note that external attendees will be asked to check in at reception upon arrival. Therefore, we ask that you please arrive at 18.20 so we can start the lecture promptly at 18.30.

Speaker: Susan Pedersen (Columbia University)

Title: The Women's Suffrage Movement in the Balfour Family

Description: On the centenary of women’s suffrage, this lecture by Susan Pedersen (Columbia University) explores the tensions and conflicts the claim for the vote raised among elite women already enmeshed in parliamentary and political circles. Drawing on the unbuttoned and sometimes angry correspondence among A.J. Balfour’s suffragist sisters-in-law Lady Frances Balfour and Lady Betty Balfour, Frances’ collaborator (and suffragist leader) Millicent Fawcett, Lady Betty’s militant suffragette sister Lady Constance Lytton, and their old friend (and wife of the anti-suffragist Prime Minister) Margot Asquith, it explores the appeal but also the costs of this democratic claim for such “incorporated” women – and explains why some nevertheless supported.

Lecture schedule: The lecture will take place in the Nash Lecture Theatre from 18.30 - 20.00, and the reception will take place in the Council Room from 20.00 - 21.00.

Directions: The Nash Lecture Theatre is on the second floor of the Strand Campus of King's College London. Go up the stairs until you are facing the chapel. Turn left and keep walking down the hall until you see the Council Room and the Nash Lecture Theatre.

Nearest underground stations:

• Temple (District and Circle lines): 2 minute walk
• Charing Cross (Bakerloo and Northern lines): 10 minute walk
• Embankment (District, Circle and Bakerloo lines): 10 minute walk
• Waterloo (Jubilee, Northern, Bakerloo, Waterloo & City lines): 12 minute walk
• Holborn (Central and Piccadilly lines): 12 minute walk
• Chancery Lane (Central line): use exit 4 - 15 minute walk

About the Ben Pimlott Memorial Lecture:

In honour of the late Ben Pimlott, Twentieth Century British History, the Institute for Contemporary British History, and Oxford Journals have established this annual lecture series. Each lecture covers a subject of interest to scholars of Twentieth Century British history. Each lecture is published in the journal and is available free online.

Read more about Twentieth Century British History here.