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 17, 2026 | 1989, Publishing, Stories, Women at work
The Times Higher Education Supplement Last week I attended what I consider to be a quite momentous occasion. It was the launch of a book put together by the Jewish women in London group entitled Generations of memories: Voices of Jewish Women. The launch was not just...
by howl | Jun 12, 2026 | 1970s, campaigns, First memories of getting involved
Rejoining the Women’s Movement & Activism By Caroline New I left my WLM-dismissive Maoist group in 1980 and came back to the WLM, to find it fracturing around race and class. There were now working class and Black subgroups which denounced white middle-class...
by howl | Jun 12, 2026 | 1970s, campaigns, First memories of getting involved
Durham-Bristol 1969-1980 By Caroline New I first came across the women’s movement in 1970. I was a graduate student, fancying myself a Marxist, and somebody told me about a protest at the Miss World beauty competition at the Albert Hall, London. I was so ignorant...
by howl | Apr 28, 2026 | Stories
by Judy Greenway In 2010, when I was in my sixties, I was interviewed for an undergraduate dissertation on the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. As my memory was better then than it is now, here is the more autobiographical part of that interview. I grew...
by howl | Mar 18, 2026 | 1981, campaigns, First memories of getting involved
By Liz Tunmer I was living in Brighton when the photo was taken – yes it would have been around 1981. I went to Brighton in 1969 to train as a teacher, married in 1972 and had two sons in 1977 and 1980. I used to go to a weekly Mother and Toddlers group where I...
by howl | Jan 28, 2026 | 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Women at work
By Pat Caplan I read Betty Friedan’s book The Feminine Mystique when I was in Nepal in 1969. On return to UK in early 1970 it was clear that it spoke to me and my situation. Pregnant with my first child, highly educated but unemployed and seemingly unemployable (‘How...
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 12, 2026 | 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980s, 1981, campaigns, First memories of getting involved
Consciousness Raising Group with Essex University lake and tower blocks (Amber Djemal, Lynne Friedli and others) Chris Baylis (Lavercombe) Having left school during my first year of A-levels, and following an unsuitable marriage aged 18-yrs with motherhood following a...
