Len Crome Memorial Conference: Women and the Spanish Civil War

Len Crome Memorial Conference
Women and the Spanish Civil War

Saturday, 12th March 2016
Location: The Manchester Conference Centre & Pendulum Hotel, Sackville Street, Manchester M1 3BB

Programme
(There will be time for questions after each session)
10.30 Registration
11.00 Welcome: Richard Baxell, Chair IBMT
11.15 Professor Paul Preston: Women in the Spanish Civil War
Pasionaria of Steel – The Life of Dolores Ibárruri
12.15 Professor Helen Graham: Wars of development –
Margaret Michaelis’ images of 1930s Barcelona
1.00 Lunch/Exhibitions/Stalls
2.00 Lynn Collins: Regional Secretary of North West TUC
2.30 Dr Sylvia Martin: Aileen Palmer and the British Medical Unit –
’our secretary, our interpreter, our dogsbody’
3.15 Dr Linda Palfreeman: Fernanda Jacobsen – Samaritan or Spy?
4.00 Plenary
5.00 Closing remarks: Jim Jump, Secretary IBMT

Contacts, Costs and payment details
£15 buffet and entrance
(payment in advance by Feb 28th)
£10 entrance only
(payment on the day)
Payment to IBMT by cheque/PayPal/bank transfer to:
Charles Jepson
Aysgaard, Beardwood Brow, Blackburn, Lancs, BB2 7AT
Tel: 01254 51302 Email:clarioncc@yahoo.co.uk
(please note no receipts will be sent out)
For further information on the conference:
Dolores Long: 0161 2262013 doloreslong@fastmail.fm
Charles Jepson: 01254 51302 clarioncc@yahoo.co.uk
Hilary Jones: 01625 527540 hilary.m.jones@btinternet.com

Note
The Orwell Society will have a stand in the Exhibition on the day, which will include our Patron, Orwell’s son, Richard Blair and Quentin and Liz Kopp. Liz Kopp’s father was with the Czech International Brigade. Please join us for the day. It is always a very interesting day. This will be the 4th Year the Orwell Society have been to the Len Crome Lecture.