by howl | Aug 10, 2026 | 1970s, campaigns, Conference, Groups, Stories, Women at work
More original newsletter articles, introduced by Joan Harries and Sheila Wentworth INTRODUCTION In 1967 abortion was made legal in the UK. This was challenged several times by anti-choice (pro-life) organisations like the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child...
by howl | Jul 29, 2026 | 1970s, campaigns, Conference, Groups, Stories, Women at work
Original newsletter articles. Compiled and introduced by Joan Harries and Sheila Wentworth The North Staffs Women’s Action Group was correctly named – there was lots of action! Memories of the Group North Staffs Women’s Action Group/NSWA/NSWAG/Stoke Women’s Action...
by howl | Jul 26, 2026 | campaigns, Conference, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Women at work
By Celia Burgess-Macey PART 3: Sexist Stereotyping in Books and Resources During the 1970s and 1980s across the country, groups looked at sexism in classrooms and in the resources being used. Many wrote about their classrooms and teaching. In 1982 The English Magazine...
by howl | Jul 26, 2026 | campaigns, Conference, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Women at work
By Celia Burgess-Macey PART 2: Feminists in Education Fight Back – national and local campaigns. In the 1970s and 80s, there were an increasing number of local as well as national campaigning groups on the issue of gender and sexism that I was involved in, some at...
by howl | Jul 26, 2026 | campaigns, Conference, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Women at work
By Celia Burgess-Macey Part 1. Respect, pay and conditions-how I took the struggle for women’s liberation into my educational work. My own growing awareness on the changing political climate during the 1970s and 80s, affected my working life in several ways. Firstly,...
by howl | Jul 16, 2026 | 1970s, 1971, campaigns, Conference, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Women at work
By Irena Fick I first became involved in the women’s liberation movement (WLM) in 1969. I remember my first meeting, it was in Karen Slaney’s flat in Dartmouth Park Hill, North London. There were about ten women in the group then. There was a Canadian filmmaker,...
by howl | Nov 17, 2025 | 1960s, campaigns, Conference, First memories of getting involved, Women at work
By Diane Langford Whenever I can’t sleep, I listen to the BBC World Service. Early one morning in February, 2010, wearing headphones so as not to disturb my slumbering partner, I was startled awake by my own voice shouting in my ear, speaking at the first National...
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...
by howl-team | Sep 18, 2023 | 1970, Conference, Stories
by Chandan I was 20 years old when I attended the UK’s first Women’s Liberation Conference at Oxford in February-March 1970. This was a landmark event in the genesis of what is termed “Second wave feminism” in Britain. 600 women and a few men – a much greater...
by howl | May 11, 2022 | 1970, 1970s, Conference
Personal experiences of WLM Creche at Ruskin — a revisionist view Author: SOS Year: 1970 I attended what is now called the first Women’s Liberation conference at Ruskin College, Oxford, in 1970. I was with my almost two year old son and my husband. I was hugely...
