by howl | Sep 12, 2025 | 1972, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Groups
By Helen Taylor I moved to Bristol in 1972, and soon met a group of wonderful women who were learning about and trying to live feminism. Sisterhood was the term we all used, and committed to proudly, as we tried to support one another and all women – through...
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 | Nov 29, 2023 | 1972, campaigns, First memories of getting involved, Groups, Stories
by Amanda Sebestyen I first heard the words ‘women’s liberation’ from a man friend on a visit from North America around 1968. I remember saying ‘Oh good’, and hearing about animal liberation too. These movements felt more human, more relatable than the young Leninist...
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 | Dec 12, 2022 | 1970s, 1972, Culture
Author: Angela Phillips Year: 1972 This photograph of Griselda Pollock and Susie Addinell, taken at the 1972 International Women’s Day march was deliberately intimate. As a member of the Women’s Lobby and Women’s Report, (the publishing group that emerged from the...
by howl | Sep 6, 2022 | 1970s, 1972, campaigns
Student street theatre Author: Jill Nicholls Year: May 1972 Cambridge Women’s Liberation and supporters in Men Against Sexism did street theatre with dressings up and megaphone in the market square. I can’t remember the specific message that day but general anti sex...
