This year we will be celebrating Mary Wollstonecraft`s birthday with a community stall at the Newington Green Park!
Come and talk to us and collect your free comic book about Mary which is the world’s first comic sharing Mary`s life. Our wonderful volunteers will be giving you a tour of the Newington Green area and The Meeting House, talking about its radical history and fascinating life of Mary Wollstonecraft.
Timings
2-5 pm
Stall in the Park
5-6pm
Tour of the Meeting House
6.15 - 7.15pm
Talk about Mary Wollstonecraft’s life by Dr Bridget Cotter (University of Westminster)
“Mary Wollstonecraft: liberating the mind”
Long considered by activists as the ‘mother of first wave feminism’ and increasingly the subject of an ever-growing field of academic scholarship, the 18th-century English radical, Mary Wollstonecraft has, in recent years, sparked the public imagination. Popular interest in her life and work has grown exponentially over the last decade. Join University of Westminster Lecturer in Politics, Dr Bridget Cotter, to find out why Wollstonecraft’s idea of freedom as independence of mind still strikes a chord with us today.
Originally from California, Dr Bridget Cotter has taught political philosophy at the University of Westminster in London since the mid-1990s. She wrote her PhD on the 20th C political thinker, Hannah Arendt. As a decade-long resident of Stoke Newington from the early 1990s, Dr Cotter, developed a strong personal interest in Mary Wollstonecraft and the other English republicans who gathered in and around the Meeting House to debate the urgent political issues of the late 18th C.