by howl | Apr 10, 2024 | 1970s, 1980s, campaigns, Groups, Women at work
Andrea Kim Valdez The London Hospital Women’s Group began in the 1970s and continued into the 1980s. The group was open to any women working at the hospital, so we had medical students, nurses, computer programmers, and other staff, possible a ward clerk and...
by howl-team | Mar 6, 2024 | 1970s, campaigns, Groups
Bernadette Hyland This is a picture of me in 1977 picketing Hull Irish Catholic MP Kevin McNamara’s surgery alongside other women and men in the local National Abortion Campaign branch. Later, he was as useless for the Irish community...
by howl-team | Nov 8, 2023 | 1990’s, Stories
Author: Ann Rossiter Once upon a time, sometime in the early 1970s, I remember that an eclectic mix of feminists including British, continental European, North American, Antipodean, and Irish, used to flock to various Women’s Liberation group meetings in a dingy,...
by howl-team | Sep 28, 2023 | 1960s, Stories
by Ann Rossiter I remember my back-street abortion well. How could I forget? I’ve told my story many times, but while the response in Britain has been sympathetic, in Ireland and amongst the Irish in Britain it has, until recently, often elicited no more than an...
