See below for a full programme of events running from 8 March to 30 October 2018.
8 March – 30 October 2018: Second Turning textile exhibition
Community textile group Second Turning and Workhouse Volunteers have created a stunning textile response to the stories of women who lived and worked at The Workhouse and to the Suffragettes 1918 Votes for Women. The exhibition will be in all areas of the house.
16 May – 30 September 2018: Working Workhouse Women 1918
South Essex College of Further and Higher Education are producing an exhibition of traditional historical costumes. Based on research from The Workhouse, it will feature costumes from Lady Laura Ridding (the first female guardian of The Workhouse Southwell and a Founder member of the National Union of Women Workers) to nurses and teachers to paupers.
6-20 September 2018: Poetry Festival
In partnership with Loughborough University, The Workhouse poetry festival this year will focus on war poetry from WW1 including poetry from men and women. There will be contemporary poetry from recent conflicts, to reflect upon. The work will be distributed around the house with the opportunity to write your own masterpiece.
Work will be hung throughout the building and visitors will have the opportunity to participate with their own responses.Dr Sarah Parker will close the festival from 1-2pm on Thursday September 20 with a reflective session about the work of Iris Tree and Lady Margaret Sackville. This workshop is free but please be aware that admissions charges apply.
