In this seminar, Dr Judith Smart and Professor Marian Quartly will introduce a number of online sites for women’s history, with a special focus on their own online exhibition 'Stirrers with Style: Presidents of the National Council of Women of Australia and its Predecessors'.

VENUE: Leigh Scott Room, First floor, Baillieu Library

CHAIR: Gavan McCarthy (e-Scholarship Research Centre, Baillieu Library)

This event is sponsored for History Week by the e-Scholarship Research Centre and the Australian Women’s Archives Project

Inquiries: Rosemary Francis, email: [email protected]

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: 

Marian Quartly holds the position of Professor Emerita at the Monash School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies. With Judith Smart she co-authored Respectable Radicals: A History of the National Council of Women of Australia, 1896–2006 (2015).

Judith Smart is Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Adjunct Professor at RMIT University. She is co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia.