by howl | Jul 17, 2026 | 1989, Publishing, Stories, Women at work
The Times Higher Education Supplement Last week I attended what I consider to be a quite momentous occasion. It was the launch of a book put together by the Jewish women in London group entitled Generations of memories: Voices of Jewish Women. The launch was not just...
by howl | Mar 18, 2026 | 1981, campaigns, First memories of getting involved
By Liz Tunmer I was living in Brighton when the photo was taken – yes it would have been around 1981. I went to Brighton in 1969 to train as a teacher, married in 1972 and had two sons in 1977 and 1980. I used to go to a weekly Mother and Toddlers group where I...
by howl | Mar 3, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, campaigns, Publishing
By Helen Martins Getting a Reader Pass at the British Library had been on my bucket list for a long time. When I finally got round to organising this a few years ago, the person at the registration desk asked me what I wanted to study. My reply was “the history of the...
by howl | Jan 28, 2026 | 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Women at work
By Pat Caplan I read Betty Friedan’s book The Feminine Mystique when I was in Nepal in 1969. On return to UK in early 1970 it was clear that it spoke to me and my situation. Pregnant with my first child, highly educated but unemployed and seemingly unemployable (‘How...
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 | Jan 7, 2026 | 1982, campaigns
by Carole Martin January 2026 Were you at Greenham in December ‘82? One of those women in the endless queue to make nine miles of hug around the base? Thirty thousand women, holding hands and singing forty years ago. The touch of cold hands clasped, a rosy face, ice...
