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 29, 2025 | 1970s, 1974, 1975, campaigns, Laws
By Hilary Land The four demands of the second wave Women’s Liberation Movement, adopted at their first national conference at Oxford in 1970, were: equal pay, equal job opportunities, free contraception and abortion on demand and twenty-four hour nurseries for...
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-team | Jul 16, 2023 | 1974, campaigns, Publishing, Women at work
Jill Nicholls I joined Spare Rib part time in 1974, having finished university and worked for a while as a driver, delivering architectural plans round SW London. In fact it was while working there that I’d waged my most successful feminist campaign ever. The...
by howl | Sep 6, 2022 | 1970s, 1974, Groups
Women’s Group at University of East Anglia Author: Jennie Lazenby Year: June 1974 A group of Women set up an East Anglia University Women’s Liberation Group in Sept 1973. This had a series of successful meetings discussing issues, which related to the Six Demands of...
