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 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 22, 2026 | Friendship, Relationships, sex, family, Women at work
By Nicolle Freni Exploring My Lesbian Feminist Creativity In late 1978, after I learned I had cancer and underwent hard hitting but eventually successful treatment, Tierl Thompson and I decided we could no longer sustain our business running WRPM (Women’s Revolutions...
by howl | Jul 16, 2026 | 1970s, 1971, campaigns, Conference, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Women at work
By Irena Fick I first became involved in the women’s liberation movement (WLM) in 1969. I remember my first meeting, it was in Karen Slaney’s flat in Dartmouth Park Hill, North London. There were about ten women in the group then. There was a Canadian filmmaker,...
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...
