by howl | Aug 10, 2026 | 1990’s, Culture, Groups, Stories
By Carole Lucas and Jane Coleman “Running is bad for your knees and it’s too cold to go out running!” How many times have we heard this negative view of running over the years? But evidence suggests we would all be happier, healthier and more productive if we...
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 21, 2026 | campaigns, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Relationships, sex, family, Women at work
By Nicolle Freni Growing Up a Working-Class Young, Gay, Woman in Brooklyn You could say that being born into a poor, Italian American family in 1948 with typical immigrant problems and the Catholic religion determining a girl’s behaviour, led me straight to women’s...
by howl | Jul 21, 2026 | 1990’s, Culture, Groups, Relationships, sex, family
By Helena Graham July 2026 The 1990s was a tumultuous decade. On the international scene, Bill Clinton was elected as the US President in 1992 and the European Union was created with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, both offering a glimmer of hope. In the same...
by howl | Apr 29, 2026 | Culture, First memories of getting involved, Stories, Women at work
By Carol Smith I was born in 1952, and was brought up Catholic. I went to a convent secondary school where the head nun was virtually a socialist feminist, albeit in a subtle sort of way! Perhaps she was an early liberation theologist? My mother was downtrodden and...
by howl | Jan 19, 2026 | 1975, Culture, Publishing, Stories, Women at work
By Mary Chamberlain Photos by Angela Phillips I first met Angela Phillips, then a photographer, in 1971 when I joined Women’s Lobby (later, Women’s Report Collective) of which she had been a founder member. Our aim was to raise awareness of women’s issues and to lobby...
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 | Dec 16, 2025 | campaigns, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Relationships, sex, family
A powerful filmed lecture on Irish women’s activism in Britain, delivered by long-standing feminist, activist and author Ann Rossiter, and filmed by renowned director Sé Merry Doyle at the Irish Cultural Centre in May 2024. In “These Wildish Things,” Rossiter reflects...
