When I first started with this project I was keen to include both male and female interviewee’s on the show. Professor Krista Cowman was the first choice that I wanted for the show her history background into women’s rights and suffrage I thought would make for a fascinating listen especially if it is put in the context to why she was involved with this world. In addition to this I noticed that she has had previous experience working within the media and has appeared on radio shows before.
However after several enquires I discovered that she was currently unavailable to record since she was in America. What I learnt from this is that I should not pin my hopes on one person but instead I should always have a backup plan incase things go awry.
Below is the Information supplied on Krista Cowman from (http://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/kcowman):
I came to Lincoln in 2006 as Professor of History after working in the School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, and the Department of History, University of York. My doctoral research centred on women and politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and used Liverpool as a case study for investigating the impact of the suffrage campaign on a range of other political organisations. This led to more detailed research on women who worked as paid organisers for the militant Women’s Social and Political Union. I have published a number of books and articles on these themes, as well as consulting and appearing in various radio and television projects.
More recently I have been looking at women’s lives in a number of different contexts; as ‘war brides’ in France during World War One, as campaigners for post-war reconstruction in and out of Parliament in Britain, and in a number of community campaigns for safe play areas in the inter-and post-war period through which women attempted to shape and control their own environments.
External Activities and Consultancy
I regularly give public lectures and talks on my research. Recent events have included
Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art International Women’s Day Inaugural Lecture, House of Commons. ‘Margot Asquith and the Role of the Political Hostess.’ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ONilANv14).
Women’s History Network Annual Women’s Day Lecture, Women’s Library, London ‘History and Feminism in Britain.’
Media Consultancy
Historical Advisor ‘The Suffragette’ feature film (UK 2015).
Historical Consultant ‘Death at the Derby’ Lion TV/Channel 4 (first broadcast May 2013).
Radio
Interviewed contributor ‘Early women drivers’, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour (January 2014).
2013 Interviewed contributor (3 episodes) ‘British Conservatism, The Grand Tour’ (Radio 4, 8, 9, 10 September 2013).
Panellist, ‘Suffragette Special’, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour (26 July 2013).
Contributor, ‘Deeds not Words’ documentary on Emily Wilding Davison, BBC Radio 4 (10 May 2013).
Interviewed contributor ‘Suffragette oral history’ BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, (10 February 2012).
Panellist, ‘Suffragism’, BBC Radio 4 In Our Time (16 April 2009).
Interviewed contributor, ‘Suffrage activism’, BBC Radio 4 Things We Forgot To Remember Series 3 Episode 1 (broadcast 24 December 2007).
Interviewed contributor, ‘Centenary of the NUWSS Mud March’, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour (broadcast 9 February 2007).
Interviewed contributor, ‘Mary Gawthorpe’, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour (broadcast 22 March 2003).
Panellist, ‘The Women’s Library’ hour-long special, BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour (broadcast 31 January 2002).
Television
Interviewed contributor, ‘Emily Wilding Davison’ Find my Past (Lion TV, December 2011).
Interviewed Contributor, ‘War Women’ (Eagle Media, First Broadcast Summer 2003).
Other
Contributor ‘The Historian and the Home Movie’ MACE/BBC History Magazine, January 2014.