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 | Nov 11, 2025 | 1970s, campaigns, Relationships, sex, family
Contribution to a lesbian history session at the 2025 FILIA conference. By Carol Ackroyd Unless you lived through the 1970s it’s hard to grasp just how hostile society was to lesbians back then. Everyone knows about the brutal laws against homosexuality for men. But...
by howl | Jul 21, 2025 | campaigns, Groups, Stories, Women at work
By Marianne Scruggs and Judy Pruss Rogers When a retired midwife friend told me about HOWL and suggested I write something about the beginning of the Association of Radical Midwives, I realized that next year, 2026, it will be 50 years since ARM began. Fortunately, I...
by howl | Jul 18, 2025 | Culture, Publishing, Stories
HOWL was delighted to welcome Margaret Busby as the guest of honour at our official launch party on Sunday 8 June 2025. Margaret is a pioneer of British publishing and a long-time advocate of championing women’s voices. She became Britain’s then youngest and first...
by howl | Jun 23, 2025 | 1973, Culture, Groups
By Nic Humberstone In 1973 my girlfriend and I were off to Warwick University on grants, where we would spend the next three years. Me aged 25 and considered a ‘mature’ student. Having left school at 15 (thrown out) and considered a failure, this was a triumph. The...
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 | May 30, 2025 | 1970, 1970s, First memories of getting involved, Groups
By Marilyn Porter I missed all the excitement around 1968 – I was in Botswana, working, so far as I was able as a ‘wife’, at the progressive Swaneng Hill School. Alas, Swaneng was not so progressive that ‘wives’ were given full teaching positions. Instead I was...
by howl | May 28, 2025 | 1970s, 1973, Groups
By Janet Brewer Ellen Malos, who died in 2023, had come to Bristol from Australia, in 1962. She and her husband John Malos were both seasoned campaigners for workers’ rights, and Ellen had more political experience than many of the women attracted to the growing...
by howl | Apr 8, 2025 | Culture, First memories of getting involved, Groups
By Paddy Tanton I was born in Hull in 1946. In that place at that time, the word ‘lesbian’ was never spoken. Growing up I had no concepts to understand who I was in relation to the rest of the narrow post-war world around me which seemed, emotionally at least, a...
