Thursday the 21^st of November Dr Laura Schwartz, Associate Professor in the Warwick History Department, launched her new book Infidel Feminism: Secularism, Religion and Women’s Emancipation, England 1830-1914 (Manchester University Press) at the Bishopsgate Institute Library in East London. She introduced her book together with her former supervisor, Professor Barbara Taylor (QMU), author of the classic Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century (Virago, 1983).

Infidel Feminism follows the lives and writings of a group of women activists who developed feminist thought in relation to anti-religious and secular ideas during the Victorian and Edwardian period. Dr Laura Schwartz connects the themes of her book to current political debate on religion and the public sphere. The Bishopsgate Institute Library holds a fine book and archive collection on London history, history of socialism, feminism and freethought.