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North Staffs Women’s Action Group – part 2
More original newsletter articles, introduced by Joan Harries and Sheila ...
North Staffs Women’s Action Group – part 1
Original newsletter articles. Compiled and introduced by Joan Harries and ...
Sexism in Education in the 1970s and 1980s: part 3
By Celia Burgess-Macey PART 3: Sexist Stereotyping in Books and ...
Sexism in Education in the 1970s and 1980s: part 2
By Celia Burgess-Macey PART 2: Feminists in Education Fight Back ...
Sexism in Education in the 1970s and 1980s: part 1
By Celia Burgess-Macey Part 1. Respect, pay and conditions-how I ...
My Route 66 to Women’s Liberation, Including the Kicks! — Part I
By Nicolle Freni Growing Up a Working-Class Young, Gay, Woman ...
My feminist awakening in Berkshire
By Jenny Stroud, Brighton and Hove Women’s History Group I ...
Looking at the Woman Question in terms of Liberation
By Irena Fick I first became involved in the women's ...
Becoming a Socialist-Feminist and the splits… Part 2
Rejoining the Women’s Movement & Activism By Caroline New I ...
Becoming a Socialist-Feminist and the splits… Part 1
Durham-Bristol 1969-1980 By Caroline New I first came across the ...
Greenham Gals
By Liz Tunmer I was living in Brighton when the ...
An afternoon with Spare Rib… revisiting the strength, support and solidarity of the sisterhood
By Helen Martins Getting a Reader Pass at the British ...
Memories of Essex University – Chris Baylis (Lavercombe)
Consciousness Raising Group with Essex University lake and tower blocks ...
Memories of Essex University – Amber Djemal
Consciousness Raising Group with Essex University lake and tower blocks ...
Memories of Essex University – Lynne Friedli
Lynne Friedli 1978 - 1981 - history/literature undergraduate 1981 - ...
Memories of Essex University
Introduction Three of us, Amber, Michele and Lynne were undergraduate ...
Thirty Thousand Women
by Carole Martin January 2026 Were you at Greenham in ...
“These Wildish Things” – Ann Rossiter on Irish Women’s Activism in Britain
A powerful filmed lecture on Irish women’s activism in Britain, ...
Islington, London – hotbed of feminist activism!
By Lynne Segal I am part of the lucky generation ...
HOWLING WITH PRIDE AND SHAME: Recollections of the Women’s Liberation Movement
By Diane Langford Whenever I can’t sleep, I listen to ...
Lesbians Choosing to Have Children in the 1970s
Contribution to a lesbian history session at the 2025 FILIA ...
Association of Radical Midwives: Beginnings
By Marianne Scruggs and Judy Pruss Rogers When a retired ...
A Free Pregnancy Testing Service for Bristol
By Helen Donoghue and Janet Brewer Free contraception and abortion ...
The Fifth Demand of the Women’s Liberation Movement 1974-75
By Hilary Land The four demands of the second wave ...
My time at the London Irish Women’s Centre
(opened 1983, closed 2012) Angie Birtill discusses her involvement with ...
1976 – a transformational year
By Pam Isherwood From an interview which Pam Isherwood and ...
Becoming and Being a Feminist
By Jeanne Rathbone Coming from a family of six women ...
Women’s Liberation in the late 1960s to Bristol Autumn 1973
By Miriam E. David I spent the year 1972-3 in ...
Women in Black: a daughter’s reflection
Judith Suissa The idea for Women in Black emerged in ...
My Feminist Memories
Yvonne Reynolds My involvement in second-wave feminism in the 1970s ...
Greenham Common Peace Camp
by Celia Burgess-Macey This personal memory and reflection relates to ...
Writing Half The Sky: An Introduction to Women’s Studies (Virago, 1979)
Miriam E. David I arrived in Bristol in the late ...
Art from Greenham Common 1981/2
Andrea Kim Valdez During the late 1970s and early 1980s, ...
The London Hospital Women’s Group
Andrea Kim Valdez The London Hospital Women’s Group began in ...
The Miners’ Strike and Southall: A Tale of Solidarity with Samosas
Pragna Patel The 1984/85 miners’ strike attracted support from many ...
From women’s liberation to Irish liberation: making the links.
Bernadette Hyland This is a picture of me in 1977 ...
Setting up the Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group
Val Dunn Notes for a talk I gave to Lesbian ...
The early days: jump-cuts and jostling reactions
by Amanda Sebestyen I first heard the words ‘women’s liberation’ ...
Black feminism
Stella Dadzie 9 November 2023 It’s difficult to answer the ...
Feminists Beyond the Pale?* The Women on Ireland Collective (1973-4), a conversation between Nettie Pollard and Ann Rossiter
Nettie: We first met in early 1973 in the Women ...
Memories of Cambridge Women’s Liberation Group – 1971-74
Jill Nicholls I arrived at the University of Cambridge age ...
Working at Spare Rib
Jill Nicholls I joined Spare Rib part time in 1974, ...
It starts when you sink into his arms and ends with your arms in his sink
By Wendy Knight I was born in 1954 and grew ...
Tales from the adoption front
By Jennie Lazenby 1980s Bizarrely, I only realised I really ...
Driving a bus through the 80s
By: Stephanie Henthorne 1980s Following my escape from the world ...
Memorabilia from my family background
Author: Stephanie Henthorne 1970s My parents’ JOINT passport from the ...
Some of my Herstory
Author: Jennie Lazenby 1970s This is the tale of a ...
The Girls’ & Young Women’s Organisation
Date: 1970s Gilli Salvat I was a youth worker in ...
A woman without a bike is like a fish without water
Author: Celia Burgess-Macey Year: 1970s I learnt to ride a ...
Did we make a difference?
Author: Catriona Courtier Year: 1970s Here we are, a dozen old ...
Hands off my Future
Author: Ayesha Khawla Usmani Year: 1970s In the 1970s while ...
January 1st 1983. Dawn. Greenham Common perimeter fence
Author: Maggie Murray Year: 1983 Waiting there with them in ...
Student street theatre
Author: Jill Nicholls Year: May 1972 Cambridge Women’s Liberation and ...
Women’s March
Author: Orjwan Rajaby Year: 1973 A group of Women set ...