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SIM Ep 430 Chops 184: Unfinished Business at the British Library with Dr Polly Russell

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Dr Polly Russell is the curator of the British Library’s cracking and important new exhibition Unfinished Business: The Fight For Women’s Rights. Bang up our alley? Yes siree.  She chats to Mickey about this landmark, three-years in the making exhibition of extraordinary content, which shows how the work of contemporary feminist activism has its roots in the long and complex history of women’s rights. And yes, the British Library is in London, but there is a wealth of resources available online, in podcast form and in a book, so that everyone can experience this very special event. www.bl.uk Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:35.0

for all women.

0:36.0

Hello Mickey here, welcome to this week's Sunday chops for which I got to leave my house.

0:42.0

Seriously now.

0:44.0

So I hope you'll excuse any giddy kipper you here

0:46.7

as I chat to the excellent Dr Polly Russell,

0:49.5

curator of the British Library's

0:50.8

cracking new exhibition, unfinished business, the Fight for Women's Rights. the solid intro at the top of the interview so I won't waffle on here but just to say it is a

1:04.3

properly special exhibition that I couldn't recommend more whether you physically

1:08.9

attend at the British Library engaged with the mass of online resources that have been put together around it

1:14.4

or treat yourself to the stylish accompanying book which is itself a wealth of

1:18.4

resources. You can find out more at the British Library's website

1:22.0

www. BL. UK.

1:25.0

and despite a lot of the exhibits holding poignant,

1:28.0

if not tragic, herstries,

1:31.0

I'm confident that you will come away as I did, inspired, energized and ready to continue fighting.

1:37.0

Hello, I'm out and about, I know, at the British Library with Dr Polly Russell, lead curator for contemporary

1:45.1

politics and public life here as well as a talented multi-hiphon at in other

1:50.0

places. Polly hello. Now Polly's just escorted me round the new exhibition which we're

1:55.8

going to talk about which is called Unfinished Business, The Fight for Women's Rights and

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