by howl | Mar 26, 2024 | 1970s, campaigns, Culture, Groups
Pragna Patel The 1984/85 miners’ strike attracted support from many different corners of this country. In Southall, amongst activists and ordinary people alike, there was visible support for the striking miners, their struggle for the right to work, and their right...
by howl | May 19, 2023 | 1980s, Groups
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 pregnant with my second child and gave birth less than two weeks after Ruskin. Of course...
by howl | Apr 3, 2023 | 1970s, campaigns, Groups
Author: Ayesha Khawla Usmani Year: 1970s In the 1970s while printing political posters at the Lenthall Road Silk Screen Workshop, one of the women running the collective asked me where the men were? I replied they’re probably in a meeting. She said, ‘So they’re doing...
