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‘THE WAY WE WROTE’ 1969-1989

‘THE WAY WE WROTE’ 1969-1989

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...
1976 – a transformational year

1976 – a transformational year

by howl | Apr 8, 2025 | 1976, campaigns, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Relationships, sex, family

By Pam Isherwood From an interview which Pam Isherwood and Jill Nicholls did with John L Williams as background for his book Heatwave – the Summer of 1976. I got involved in feminism in 1975 or 76. Before that I’d been a wife, very much a wife, in a hippy...

I Attended the International Tribunal for Crimes against Women in 1976

by howl | Oct 30, 2024 | 1970s, 1976, Conference, First memories of getting involved

By Helen Bishop The International Tribunal for Crimes against Women, in Brussels, March 1976 was such an important event. 2000 women attended, from 40 different countries. I wanted to write about it for HOWL because now nobody seems to know about it. There was no...

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