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-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...
