Friends of the John Rylands

DUE TO UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES WE HAVE HAD TO CANCEL THIS MEETING

Clementine Churchill: Winston “might have succeeded without her, but he would not have done so well” (Bernard Baruch)

JO LANGHAM BROWN graduated from Manchester University with a first in History and two prizes in 1962. She went on to teach history at the University of Saskatchewan and received an MA degree from the University of Laval in French Canada. She was a Canada Council Doctoral Fellow and worked for the Public Archives of Canada in the Television Film and Sound Archives section.  Returning to the UK in 1980, she continued her media career working for the BBC, as well as for the European Institute for the Media at the University of Manchester; the Independent Broadcasting Association; the British Film Institute; Manchester Grammar School and finally teaching in the Media School of what is now the University of Chester. She is the author of several books including Teachers and Television which examined research on the use of television in the class room. Since her retirement she has worked on a number of historical projects, her latest book being a history of Sir John Cass and the Sir John Cass Foundation.

Jo’s interest in Clementine is purely personal. Asked to write a chapter about Clementine for a feminist history of the wives of (so-called) Great Men, she and the editor disagreed about the line to take! However, she became interested in Clementine and her life story and has since continued to research her personality and her life with, and attitudes to, her husband. Whilst not a “Churchillian expert” in any way Jo has found Clementine's life story a fascinating one.