Season 2 Episode 4: Smashing Women: Janet Barrowman
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The women in this picture along with thousands of other women made history as part of the Suffragette movement when they chose to fight for the right to vote. Join Fiona Hayes, museums social history curator and Sue John from the Glasgow Women's Library as they tell us the powerful story of Janet Barrowman, an activist and Glaswegian Suffragette. This episode of the Glasgow Museums Podcast was recorded via Zoom, February 2021. Timecodes: 01:00 - 05:30 - Who was Janet Barrowman and what story do these coins tell? 05:30 - 09:20 - The campaign, activism, Suffrage support and advertisements 09:20 - 14:30 - The woman who travelled with Janet Barrowman, the campaigns they were involved with and the memoteos donated to museums 14:35 -15:40 - The creativity of the Suffragette movement 15:40 - 27:00 - Gaps in knowledge of Suffragette materiel and new research into Satirical material, and mass produced items, made for commercial profit such as games and postcards Links Glasgow Women's Library https://womenslibrary.org.uk/ The Argument of the Broken Pane: Suffragette Consumerism and Newspapers by Jane Chapman, published in Media History Vol. 21, No. 3 in 2015: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13688804.2014.977238 Art and Suffrage, a biographical dictionary of Suffrage artists, by Elizabeth Crawford, 2018 https://francisboutle.co.uk/products/art-and-suffrage/ Panko card game http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/mwebcgi/mweb?request=record;id=46908;type=101 Photograph http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/mwebcgi/mweb?request=record;id=675279;type=101 Coins http://collections.glasgowmuseums.com/mwebcgi/mweb?request=record;id=504545;type=101
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