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- Price
- Free - Booking required
- Running time
- 1pm - 3pm
- Venue
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- Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
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Event description
Join us for an afternoon of talks to celebrate International Women’s Day and the launch of the Rebel Women of Sunderland exhibition. Discover the stories of bold, brilliant and boundary breaking women from Sunderland, including Ida and Louise Cook, Audrey Amiss, Kate Adie and Eileen “Dusty” Deste. The talks will be given by Angela Smith, Lyn Killeen, Rachel Webb, and Sophie Piper, with thanks to Southwick REACH and University of Sunderland.
1pm – 1:20pm
Angela Smith: “Trashy novels and heroic deeds: Ida and Louise Cook’s role in rescuing Jews from the Nazis“.
The talk explores the Cook sisters links with Sunderland, how they got involved in rescuing Nazis, and how Ida’s writing career funded their activities.
1:25pm – 1:45pm
Lyn Killeen: “Finding Audrey Amiss”
Artist Lyn Killeen presents her research into the Life and Work of Sunderland Artist Audrey Amiss. Lyn leads the University of Sunderland’s Rebel Women, Audrey Amiss Podcast Project 2025 with community group Southwick REACH (Research, Education, Arts and Culture Home).
1.45pm – 2:05pm: Break
2:05pm – 2:25pm
Rachel Webb: “I’m only a reporter”
Kate Adie’s journey from Sunderland to Chief News Correspondent of the BBC – Rachel Webb
During Kate Adie’s career as a news reporter she navigated through a rapidly changing landscape of news, global conflicts, technology and the challenges faced by women in the world of work. How did her presence as a woman make an impact? Rachel Webb works in Special Collections at the University of Sunderland Library.
2.30pm – 3pm
Sophie Piper: “Making women’s work visible”
Sophie will introduce the accomplished underappreciated British Photographer Eileen ‘Dusty’ Deste and her documentation of women’s work at the Pyrex Factory in 1961. The presentation will also be an opportunity to find out about taking part in Sophie’s upcoming participatory research project Women’s Work at Pyrex.
Image credit: Kathryn Robertson, left to right: Audrey Amiss, Ida & Louise Cook, Kate Adie. Courtesy of the Artist.
