This podcast is one of ten podcasts recorded at the 'Silence in the Archives' conference hosted by the Oxford Centre of Life-Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford on 7 November 2015.
This set of two lectures on 'Politics and Conflicts' were delivered as part of panel 2b. Chair: Rhea Sookdeosingh, St Cross College, Oxford. Speakers: Helen Mathers, The Open University, ‘Self-Censorship: Josephine Butler’s Attitudes to Biography and Autobiography’ and Stephenie Woolterton, Independent Scholar, ‘”I shall burn all…”: The mysterious link between Elizabeth Williams and Lady Hester Stanhope’.