Elgin library to host event giving an insight into women's suffrage in Scotland

ELGIN library is to play host to an Aberdeen-based professor later this month, who will present an insight into women's suffrage in Scotland.

At the event on Wednesday 22 August at 7pm, Sarah Pedersen, a Professor of Communication and Media and the Director of Research in Communication, Marketing and Media at Robert Gordon University, will deliver a talk about her book entitled ‘Scottish Suffragettes and the Press’.

This book gives a unique viewpoint of the fight for women’s votes in Scotland. It approaches the Scottish women’s suffrage campaign from the point of view of the popular press.

To complement this talk an exhibition of photographs and articles from newspapers about women’s suffrage in Scotland, and in particular the local area, will be on display during August within Elgin library.

Tickets for the talk cost £5 and are available from Elgin Library. Call 01343 562602 or purchase online: https://secure.moray.gov.uk/eshop/home.php.

Famous for its colony of dolphins, fabulous beaches and more malt whisky distilleries than any where else in Scotland, Moray is a thriving area and a great place to live. Nestling between Aberdeenshire and the Highlands, Moray stretches from Tomintoul in the south to the shores of the Moray Firth, from Keith in the east to Brodie Castle in the west.