Name: The Reform Diet: Votes for Women and the Vegetarian Movement
Start: 2024-05-23T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-23T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Pankhurst Centre

The Reform Diet: Votes for Women and the Vegetarian Movement

Helen Antrobus explores the relationship between the women’s suffrage movement and the vegetarian movement’s roots in Manchester & Salford.
About this Event

What would surprise you more – that vegetarian restaurants and cafes existed in the early 20th century, or that they were frequented by the suffragettes?

Curator and Historian Helen Antrobus explores the relationship between the women’s suffrage movement, the politicisation of women throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, and the remarkable history of the vegetarian movement’s roots in Manchester and Salford.

Helen Antrobus is the Assistant National Curator of Cultural Landscapes at the National Trust. Her current research interests explore women in the 20th century and their emotional and political connections to rural landscapes. Her previous work was focused on the women’s suffrage movement and early female members of parliament. In 2022, she co-curated Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature with the V&A, and in 2018, curated Represent! Voices 100 Years On at the People’s History Museum. Her first book, First in the Fight: Women Who Made Manchester, was published in 2019.