Co-operative Conversations with Natalie Bradbury

Natalie Bradbury is a writer and researcher based in Greater Manchester. In 2018, she completed a PhD on post-war British art and education. She previously worked at the Co-operative College in Manchester where,  via the National Co-operative Archive, she encountered the Co-operative Women’s Guild, their campaigning work around issues such as maternity rights and social issues, as well as their controversial pacifist stance and promotion of the white poppy. 

In 2018, Natalie contributed a chapter to the edited collection - Women’s periodicals and print culture in Britain, 1918⁠–⁠1939: The interwar period.  The chapter - 'Woman's Outlook 1919-1939: An educational space for co-operative women'  examined Women's Outlook, a magazine for women in the co-operative movement first published in 1919.  In it, she argues that the magazine functioned at a variety of levels to bring women together into a co-operative community and represented a group of women who were not captured in other publications, and who shared particular concerns as working class women committed to co-operative ideas and trading. 

A paperback version of the book is due to be published in 2025.

Bradbury, N. (2018). Woman's Outlook 1919-1939: An Educational Space for Co-operative Women. In C.Clay, M. DiCenzo, B. Green, & F. Hackney (Eds.), Women’s periodicals and print culture in Britain, 1918⁠–⁠1939: The interwar period. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474412537.003.0033