The Alice Bacon Lecture 2022 delivered by Professor Mary Beard

Professor Mary Beard gives the 2022 Alice Bacon Lecture at the University of Leeds. Thursday, 27 October 2022. © Victor De Jesus

On Thursday 27th October, the Alice Bacon Lecture 2022 was delivered by Dame Professor Mary Beard at the University of Leeds. The celebrated professor of Classics is the fourth person to have given the Alice Bacon Lecture since the inaugural lecture in 2018, following Harriet Harman MP, Baroness Hale of Richmond, and Baroness Doreen Lawrence. The lecture, which honours the city of Leeds' first woman MP, celebrates the achievements of pioneering women and is jointly organised by the Centre for Democratic Politics and Rachel Reeves MP, who is also Alice Bacon's biographer.  Professor Beard delivered a brilliant lecture on 'Women in Power' which was followed by a live Q&A in the University's Great Hall.

Group photo. From left to right: Rachel Reeves MP, CDP Director Dr Richard Hayton, Professor Cristina Leston Bandeira, Executive Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences Professor Paul Johnson, and Dame Professor Mary Beard. © Victor De Jesus