by howl | Jul 11, 2025 | 1970, 1970s, 1972, 1972, campaigns, Groups
By Helen Donoghue and Janet Brewer Free contraception and abortion on demand was one of the first four demands of the women’s liberation movement; these were established at the Ruskin conference of 1970. It was recognition that until women could control their own...
by howl | Jun 3, 2025 | 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980s, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, Culture, Publishing
by Amanda Sebestyen One of the amazing things about nearing 80 is that suddenly younger people want to know what you did in the past. We’ve become history! Not just to be written about by other people, but to tell it how we experienced it. Last year Tate Britain...
by howl | May 30, 2025 | 1970, 1970s, First memories of getting involved, Groups
By Marilyn Porter I missed all the excitement around 1968 – I was in Botswana, working, so far as I was able as a ‘wife’, at the progressive Swaneng Hill School. Alas, Swaneng was not so progressive that ‘wives’ were given full teaching positions. Instead I was...
by howl | Jul 22, 2024 | 1970, 1970s
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by howl | Jul 10, 2024 | 1970, 1970s, Culture, Groups
Edited for HOWL by Sue Finch, Jenny Fortune, Jane Grant, Jo Robinson and Sarah Wilson In 1970 an estimated 100+ women infiltrated the Miss World contest at the Royal Albert Hall in London, throwing leaflets, flour, smoke and stink bombs among other things. They...
by howl-team | May 29, 2024 | 1970, 1979, 1990’s, Culture
Sue Katz My career as a leader in partner dance started in elementary school when I insisted on taking the “boy’s role” in American square dancing. My teacher Miss Bocchichio – the only name I recall from those days – got so frustrated with my refusal to follow, that...
by howl-team | Sep 18, 2023 | 1970, Conference, Stories
by Chandan I was 20 years old when I attended the UK’s first Women’s Liberation Conference at Oxford in February-March 1970. This was a landmark event in the genesis of what is termed “Second wave feminism” in Britain. 600 women and a few men – a much greater...
by howl-team | Jul 16, 2023 | 1970, 1971, 1972, 1972, 1973, 1974, campaigns, Groups
Jill Nicholls I arrived at the University of Cambridge age 19, having had a gap year, which was unusual in those days – it was because I’d been to a state school, so, unlike public school kids, I had to do my Oxbridge entrance exams in a ‘third year...
by howl | May 11, 2022 | 1970, 1970s, Culture
Women’s Liberation – my early years as a cultist Author: Zoe Fairbairns Date: May 1970 I got involved with feminism the way some people get involved with religious cults. People join cults because their heads are full of unanswered questions – and one day they...
by howl | May 11, 2022 | 1970, 1970s, Conference
Personal experiences of WLM Creche at Ruskin — a revisionist view Author: SOS Year: 1970 I attended what is now called the first Women’s Liberation conference at Ruskin College, Oxford, in 1970. I was with my almost two year old son and my husband. I was hugely...
