by howl | Jan 12, 2026 | 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980s, 1981, campaigns, First memories of getting involved
Consciousness Raising Group with Essex University lake and tower blocks (Amber Djemal, Lynne Friedli and others) Chris Baylis (Lavercombe) Having left school during my first year of A-levels, and following an unsuitable marriage aged 18-yrs with motherhood following a...
by howl | Jan 9, 2026 | 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980s, 1981, campaigns, First memories of getting involved, Groups
Consciousness Raising Group with Essex University lake and tower blocks (Amber Djemal, Lynne Friedli and others) Amber Djemal Before arriving at Essex University, aged 18 in 1978, I had become aware of Feminism due to an action I had been involved in at school in...
by howl | Jan 9, 2026 | 1978, 1979, 1980s, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, First memories of getting involved, Groups
Michele Grant I arrived at Essex University straight from my comprehensive school in Liverpool. I had no money as I was expecting to pick up a cheque with my full grant which was to cover all my needs. How lucky we were in those days, except that the cheque didn’t...
by howl | Jan 9, 2026 | 1978, 1979, 1980s, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, campaigns, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Women at work
Lynne Friedli 1978 – 1981 – history/literature undergraduate 1981 – 1988 – ph.d student Cross dressing, hermaphrodites and feminist debates in 18th century France and England I was working on reception in a hotel in Dedham when I first came...
by howl | Jan 9, 2026 | 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, campaigns, First memories of getting involved, Groups
Introduction Three of us, Amber, Michele and Lynne were undergraduate students at Essex University between 1977 and 1981. The Women’s Liberation Movement was a powerful presence at Essex; we became part of that, as friends and activists, both together and...
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...
