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"Uncontrollable & Infidel Women" - marking Emma Martin's legacy, with Nan Sloane
Mon 07 Nov
|Unitarian Meeting Hall
Celebrating Emma Martin - Bristol’s least known, most important radical woman. Campaigning atheist, feminist, & midwife TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED VIA EVENTBRITE - RSVP ALONE WILL NOT GUARANTEE YOU A PLACE. MEMBERS CAN CLAIM FREE TICKET BY EMAILING bristolhumanists@gmail.com
Time & Location
07 Nov 2022, 19:30
Unitarian Meeting Hall, Brunswick Square, St Paul's, Bristol BS2 8PE, UK
About the event
Please note this is a ticketed event. Tickets are available in advance from https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uncontrollable-infidel-women-their-legacy-nan-sloane-authorhistorian-tickets-404760287917?aff=ebdshpsearchautocomplete. Full price tickets are just £3, concessions £1. It is FREE for Bristol Humanists members - contact bristolhumanists@gmail.com for your ticket, or to join https://www.bristolhumanists.com/membership
All proceeds will go towards the cost of funding a Blue Plaque to celebrate Emma Martin.
Emma Martin is Bristol's least-known, but most important freethinker, feminist and atheist. The fact that so few people have heard of her is testament to the way in which important woman have been ignored by history. She was a fearless campaigner, speechmaker and writer on freedom of speech, atheism, women’s rights, and later childbirth.
To celebrate Emma’s life Nan Sloane (above) will talk about her, and many other radical women, their role, impact and especially their legacy in the C21st. She will explore Emma Martin’s free-thinker predecessors, like Jane Carlile and Susannah Wright, and their…