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‘Rebel girl’ goes on tour
This July marks the 80th anniversary of British women being given the right to vote, after many years of protests, prison terms and hunger strikes. It will also be 100 years since a group of suffragists first set off from Whitby in a horse-drawn caravan to take their message over Yorkshire hills and dales, through small towns and villages.

As part of the celebrations, Leeds research fellow Dr Jill Liddington (Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies) is taking her book Rebel Girls – Their fight for the vote out on the road again this summer for a series of talks.

Her painstaking research for the book uncovered the inspirational stories of Yorkshire suffragists like Leeds activist Leonora Cohen, who smashed a glass display case at the Tower of London, and 16-year-old mill worker Dora Thewlis from Huddersfield, who was arrested in London.

Dr Liddington will give her first talk in Whitby on 15 June, and she will be speaking in Leeds on 1 October. For details and dates of the Rebel Girls book tour, go to www.jliddington.org.uk/talks.html or www.virago.co.uk (click on ‘news’ then ‘events’).

To read more about Rebel Girls (Virago, 2006), see http://reporter.leeds.ac.uk/516/s10.htm

Medieval melting pot
Questions on how to be a good knight in the 13th century, Royal widows, English medieval battlefields, and the challenges of conserving relics of the Middle Ages will all be up for discussion at this year’s International Medieval Congress, taking place from 7-10 July 2008.

Now in its 15th year, the congress is organised by Leeds’ Institute of Medieval Studies and has become an unrivalled forum for intellectual debate in all things medieval. It is the largest and richest gathering of its kind in Europe, attended by more than 1,400 delegates with over 350 academic sessions, plus a wide range of concerts, performances, excursions, and a book fair.

For details of the programme visit www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc or if you have questions please email imc@leeds.ac.uk or phone 0113 343 3614.

Contribution pay 2007/08
Information is now available for all staff wishing to apply for additional scale increments, discretionary increments and one-off payments, and for managers to recommend their staff for an award.

The awards are available to recognise individual or team contributions which exceed the expectations for the role/s.

Copies of the procedure are available at www.leeds.ac.uk/hr/policy/promotions.htm or phone ext. 34128, 34143 or 31846.

The deadline for submitting applications is 31 August 2008.

A universe of textiles
‘World Textiles and Yorkshire: Past and Future’ is an exhibition of pieces designed and manufactured by 170 students, with guidance from specialist tutors.

The varied creations on display at St Wilfred’s Chapel in the Maurice Keyworth Building are part of an 18-month project associated with the University of Leeds International Textiles Archive (ULITA), which aimed to encourage schoolchildren and adults of all ages and backgrounds to increase their knowledge of textiles.

The project, in partnership with the South Leeds City Learning Centre (Education Leeds), is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The exhibition is open from 11 June to 18 July, Tuesdays-Fridays, 9.30am to 4.30pm. For further information see www.leeds.ac.uk/ulita