Beyond the Ballot - free online course

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We've been discussing the colours and a bit about suffragists and suffragettes, of course, so I thought I'd flag this up.

I'm sorry I can't make a link, but it's from FutureLearn and was created as part of the centenary celebrations. It ran for the first time in the spring and is being repeated in November. It's a very good intro and overview of UK women's history from 1860 to date. FWR is so erudite - and modest about it - I don't want to teach anyone to suck eggs but I thought it might be of interest.

I ran out of time a bit before, so I've signed up again - it would be lovely to see other FWRers there.

(Disclaimer - I've no connections with the course etc.)

thanks, I will def look at that.

my school didn't even cover women's suffrage!

Thanks for that! Hopefully a few of us will sign up and we can have a thread here when it starts in November.

Link here: www.futurelearn.com/courses/womens-rights

Thanks for this, have signed up! I love future learn but it's been a while since I've done one of their courses.

Woman hope to see you there.

silent thanks for the link

Nose woo-hoo! See you there.

Bump.

Roll up! Roll up!

Starts tomorrow - Monday 12th November.

Ooh, I like the look of that!

Signed up thanks!

Signed up. Thanks for the link.

So pleased you posted this as I was trying to remember the name the other day so that I could locate it!

Thanks for the reminder Concrete have signed up. I feel woefully ignorant on the subject so looking forward to the course.

Yay! See you all tomorrow. Don't forget your pencil-cases

How’s everyone finding it? I’m only a few videos in but I found that quote from Florence Nightingale’s Cassandra really interesting.

I'm finding it quite difficult to do with a toddler around who never seems to sleep!
Actual course content is fairly interesting so far, but I wouldn't say I've learned anything new yet.

Dropping in a link to the full Cassandra essay by Florence Nightingale as it's a barnstormer to read:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920981/

Just to say that some of the interviews are disappointingly content-free or overly faux-naif but some of the supplementary materials are decent and I like the reminders about historical reformers like Josephine Butler tho' it's wretched to see how many of the social evils she highlighted are still with us (e.g., prostitution, trafficking).

Week 2 is starting to be a bit meatier but I feel that they've bowdlerised some of the content that would be relevant.

Hello Nice to see some feedback. I'm sorry if some FWRers are a bit disappointed - on reflection, I think I should have emphasised more that it's a fairly basic course.

arran do you have any recommendations at all for the bits you think they've missed? I've accumulated a few books over the years, but my reading has been pretty piecemeal.