Classical music has a gender problem. Pick almost any metric, and classical music’s gender statistics are dire. Only 7.5 per ...

Vera Brittain (pictured) briefly describes the restrictions she faced as a young girl in a provincial town before introducing the composer and suffragette leader Dame Ethel Smyth. Heralded by her ...

Running concurrently is the ESRC Festival of Social Science, which focuses on the real-world impact of social science research. This year’s festival at Surrey tackles a wide range of urgent societal ...

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Those women who persevered found that their careers were bound by “wretched sex-considerations”, which composer and suffragette Dame Ethel Smyth described as the “fashioning factor” of her ...

Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano by prolific lieder composer Josephine Lang and for mezzo-soprano and mixed chamber ensemble by Dame Ethel Smyth bookend the program, with works for string quartet, ...

Previous #HiddenCredits have celebrated recognisable figures such as Garrett-Fawcett herself and Dame Ethel Smyth, but on 19 February, he honoured an activist whose work has been all but erased ...

and suffragette campaigners Millicent Fawcett and Dame Ethel Smyth. Neil Gray, the Scottish culture minister, said the collection "offers insights into the life of an influential Scottish family ...

The festival, founded in 1934, this year features a staging of pioneering feminist composer Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, which has only been staged professionally a handful of times since ...