{"id":937,"date":"2016-05-13T09:06:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T09:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/?p=937"},"modified":"2016-05-13T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T13:56:08","slug":"entering-the-arena-women-politics-and-twentieth-century-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/news\/entering-the-arena-women-politics-and-twentieth-century-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Entering the arena: Women, politics and twentieth-century Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 22nd June, Thomas Dixon and Helen McCarthy will be participating in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britac.ac.uk\/events\/2016\/entering_the_arena.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"> British Academy discussion\u00a0&#8216;Entering the arena: Women, politics and twentieth-century Britain&#8217;<\/a>. The event is free to attend but registration is required.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Wednesday 22 June 2016, 6-7.30pm<br \/>\nThe British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chaired by Professor Peter Mandler FBA, Professor of Modern Cultural History, Unviersity of Cambridge<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Throughout the twentieth century, British women defied the social conventions of their day to seek influence in the political arena. Dr Helen McCarthy tells their story of struggle to stand on the diplomatic stage while Dr Thomas Dixon explores women in politics through the history of emotions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<br \/>\nDr Helen McCarthy, <\/strong>Senior Lecturer in History, Queen Mary University of London<strong><br \/>\nDr Thomas Dixon, <\/strong>Reader in History; Director, Centre for the History of the Emotions, Queen Mary University of London<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 22nd June, Thomas Dixon and Helen McCarthy will be participating in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.britac.ac.uk\/events\/2016\/entering_the_arena.cfm\" target=\"_blank\"> British Academy discussion\u00a0&#8216;Entering the arena: Women, politics and twentieth-century Britain&#8217;<\/a>. The event is free to attend but registration is required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}