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...
by howl-team | Jul 3, 2024 | 1979, Publishing
Susan Hemmings I joined the Spare Rib collective towards the end of the 70s as I approached my forties, so I was one of the oldest there and I had a teenage daughter, Lisa. While there was a lot of discussion about intersectionality, which we then called multiple...
by howl-team | May 29, 2024 | 1970, 1979, 1990’s, Culture
Sue Katz My career as a leader in partner dance started in elementary school when I insisted on taking the “boy’s role” in American square dancing. My teacher Miss Bocchichio – the only name I recall from those days – got so frustrated with my refusal to follow, that...
by howl | Apr 19, 2024 | 1970s, 1979, campaigns, Publishing
Miriam E. David I arrived in Bristol in the late summer of 1973, as a Lecturer in Social Administration at the University. Hilary Land had advocated strongly for me. I had met her as a researcher at London School of Economics (LSE) when we were both in the Social...
