CAROLINE Criado-Perez, who successfully fought to keep a woman on a Bank of England note, is to visit Hampshire this weekend to give a public lecture at Chawton House Library.

The feminist activist will talk about the role of women and money in contemporary political culture.

The lecture is part of a two-day event, The Image of Finance: Why Jane Austen on the £10 Note Matters, which celebrates the Bank of England’s decision to depict Jane Austen on the £10 note.

The event has been organised in partnership with the University of Southampton, the Leverhulme Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research Council and coincides with the arrival in Hampshire of the national touring exhibition Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present.

The two-day event runs from Friday, September 19 to Saturday 20 and delegates can choose to attend one or both days, or the free lecture alone on the Friday evening.

The Show Me the Money exhibition is the first in-depth exploration of the visual culture of the financial world from historical illustrations, prints, cartoons and games to contemporary painting, photography, video and installation.

On display will be work by leading female artists, such as Jane Lawson, Rhiannon Williams, Geraldine Juárez, Justine Smith and Victoria Bradbury. This includes William’s My Loss is My Loss, a paper quilt made from a decade’s worth of lottery tickets to Juárez’s Hello Bitcoin, a video installation of the artist burning a bitcoin, to Smith’s A Bigger Bang, a piece that represents deregulated finance through a cut-up map of money.

The two-day programme:

Fri: Money, Sovereignty and Representation (10am-5pm)

Cultural historians and theorists will join curators from the British Museum and British Library to discuss and debate the material forms of money, and ask: What does money really stand for? Tickets: £30 (£20 for students and unwaged delegates)

Fri: Show me the Money: The Image of Finance at Chawton House Library (6pm - 8pm)

To support the private exhibition preview of Show me the Money, a public lecture will be given by Caroline Criado-Perez, feminist activist and spokesperson for the successful and controversial Keep a Woman on English Banknotes campaign. Tickets: free (booking required)

Sat: University of Southampton Lifelong Learning Study Day: Banking in the Age of Jane Austen (9.30am to 5pm)

Speakers will address the rise of paper money and financial malpractice, the transformation of the social landscape by modern capitalism, and Austen’s own insider knowledge of the changing world of banking through her banker brother, Henry. Tickets: £40 (£30 for students and unwaged delegates). A two-day ticket costs £60 or £40 for students and unwaged delegates.

For ticket sales, or to reserve a free place at the public lecture, visit Eventbrite at http://tinyurl.com/0fqwdj9 or call Chawton House Library on 01420 541010.