by howl | Jun 23, 2025 | 1973, Culture, Groups
By Nic Humberstone In 1973 my girlfriend and I were off to Warwick University on grants, where we would spend the next three years. Me aged 25 and considered a ‘mature’ student. Having left school at 15 (thrown out) and considered a failure, this was a triumph. The...
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 28, 2025 | 1970s, 1973, Groups
By Janet Brewer Ellen Malos, who died in 2023, had come to Bristol from Australia, in 1962. She and her husband John Malos were both seasoned campaigners for workers’ rights, and Ellen had more political experience than many of the women attracted to the growing...
by howl-team | Dec 12, 2024 | 1960s, 1973, campaigns, First memories of getting involved, Groups, Publishing, Women at work
By Miriam E. David I spent the year 1972-3 in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the Harvard Graduate School for Education as a researcher. I had been in London for the previous six years (1966-1972), apart from three months in Israel from June to September 1967. In London,...
by howl-team | Oct 10, 2023 | 1973, 1974, campaigns
Nettie: We first met in early 1973 in the Women on Ireland Collective which held regular meetings at the Kingsgate Women’s Centre in Kilburn, west London. Although my family and personal background was in Left politics, and in the early 1970s I had become far more...
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 13, 2022 | 1970s, 1973, campaigns
Women’s March Author: Orjwan Rajaby Year: 1973 A group of Women set up an East Anglia University Womens Liberation Group in Sep 1973. This had a series of successful meetings discussing issues, which related to the 6 Demands of the WLM However all the content...
