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This March, join Royal Museums Greenwich for Women's History Month as they celebrate the contributions and resilience of women through the ages.

Discover the fascinating stories of fearless fighters, gender non-conformers, and activists as well as a deep dive into the WRNS (Wrens) uniform collection at the National Maritime Museum.

Drawing on the knowledge of writers, artists and academics involved, you will look at the pioneers who forged their own future in an overwhelmingly male-dominated society.

Event Programme:

Film Launch and In Conversation Event: 'Daughter[s] of diaspora' (4th March)
Time: 1:30 - 3:30pm
Venue: National Maritime Museum Lecture Theatre
The launch of 'Daughter[s] of diaspora' film followed by "In conversation with Nydia Swaby and Jahmila Heath.
'daughter(s) of diaspora' uses Black women’s feelings and emotions to grapple with the distortions, chasms and absences in the Museum’s archives.
Rooted in the afterlife of transatlantic slavery and colonialism, and how these histories continue to shape the Black diasporic experience, daughter(s) of diaspora asks how material from the past informs Black women’s understanding of their present realities and their hopes and dreams for the future.

Talk: The Girl Friday Breakfast Club (10th March)
Time: 10:30am - 11:30am 
Venue: National Maritime Museum Lecture Theatre
The Girl Friday Breakfast Club provides a friendly and informal space for women to meet, chat, and to support each other. There is no agenda other than hearing from an interesting woman speaker about their life, career and passions. This very special Girl Friday event is held at the Royal Museums Greenwich during our fifth birthday year in association with the Drawing SEAson and Women’s History Month. All women, and those who identify as women, are very welcome to join the Girl Friday Breakfast Club. 
Guest speaker is the artist Mary Evans, BAFA Course Leader at Chelsea College of Arts.
Join in for a cuppa and a croissant and hear the fascinating insights and stories from Mary.

Talk: ‘Love unbounded’: Lovers, Wives, and Families of the 19th Century Navy (14th March)
Time: 1:30pm - 2:00pm
Venue: Queen's House
This talk explores the histories of the families and loved ones who remained behind on shore. Focusing on familial portraits and forget-me-not objects, this talk will provide insights into the pressures and partnerships of naval marriages, the experience of parenting, and how loved ones responded to separation and loss.

Tour: A Woman's Place: The Queen's House and its Female Patrons (14th March)
Time: 2:15pm - 2:45pm
Venue: Queen's House
The tour will explore how these women carved out their own space at court and how their pioneering vision turned the Queen’s House into a centre for architectural and artistic innovation.

No Direction Home: All female comedy evening (24th March)
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Venue: National Maritime Museum Lecture Theatre
Celebrate Women's History Month with some of the freshest female voices in UK comedy.
Hosted by rising star Ola Labib, with comedians Selam Amare, Shalaka Kurup, Yasmeen Ghrawi and Pepa Duarte.

Talk: Pioneering Women on the World Stage (25th March)
Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm 
Venue: National Maritime Museum Lecture Theatre
Exploring the impacts made by 4 phenomenal Black women, whose voices are still felt today. Discover how their journeys interlink and their actions being impactful so many years later. 

Talk: More Than a Uniform: 'The Material Culture of Women's Naval Uniform 1917-1956' (31st March)
Time: 2:00pm - 2:40pm
Venue: National Maritime Museum Lecture Theatre
Dr Jo Horton will explore the lives and ambitions of these phenomenal women, who served their country under difficult circumstances and within restrictive social norms.

Talk: 'Crossed Dressed to Kill' (31st March)
Time: 3:00pm - 3:40pm
Venue: National Maritime Museum Lecture Theatre
Hear fascinating women’s stories: fearless, ‘tomboys’, early feminists and decidedly full of what was called ‘pluck and spunk’. For them ‘patriotism had no sex’, determined to fight for their country. What did society think of them? What happened to them after they were discovered, their sex revealed while dying on the battlefield or wounded. All this and more with author and broadcaster Vivien Morgan.