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...
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 | 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 | Apr 13, 2025 | 1980s, campaigns, Groups
(opened 1983, closed 2012) Angie Birtill discusses her involvement with Ann Rossiter of HOWL Angie: I worked at the London Irish Women’s Centre on housing, welfare and employment rights for twelve years. The Centre was run as a feminist collective where...
by howl-team | Jun 27, 2024 | 1970s, 1977, campaigns
by Celia Burgess-Macey This personal memory and reflection relates to the Women’s Peace camp and two protests I attended at Greenham Common. The women’s peace camp began in September 1981 after a Welsh Group called Women for Life on Earth went to Greenham Common to...
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 14, 2023 | 1970s, 1980s, campaigns, First memories of getting involved, Groups
Stella Dadzie 9 November 2023 It’s difficult to answer the question of how I got involved in feminist politics, because it came about as a result of a number of things. I was already involved in some black liberation activities – I was working with a couple of...
