by howl | Jul 16, 2026 | 1970s, campaigns, First memories of getting involved, Relationships, sex, family
By Jenny Stroud, Brighton and Hove Women’s History Group I think even as a young girl, and a sporty one as well, that I knew innately there was something wrong with the balance of the world. This would have been in the late 1950s/early 1960s. I wasn’t allowed to play...
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 9, 2026 | 1978, 1979, 1980s, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, campaigns, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Women at work
Lynne Friedli 1978 – 1981 – history/literature undergraduate 1981 – 1988 – ph.d student Cross dressing, hermaphrodites and feminist debates in 18th century France and England I was working on reception in a hotel in Dedham when I first came...
by howl | Jan 7, 2026 | 1982, campaigns
by Carole Martin January 2026 Were you at Greenham in December ‘82? One of those women in the endless queue to make nine miles of hug around the base? Thirty thousand women, holding hands and singing forty years ago. The touch of cold hands clasped, a rosy face, ice...
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-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 | Apr 10, 2024 | 1980s, 1981, 1982, campaigns, Groups
Andrea Kim Valdez During the late 1970s and early 1980s, when I was living in Holloway and working part-time at The London Hospital, I was a member of a local Women’s Group as well as The London Hospital Women’s Group. Coach trips to Greenham Common were organised by...
by howl | May 24, 2023 | 1980s, campaigns, Groups
By: Stephanie Henthorne 1980s Following my escape from the world of freemasonry, Daily Mail and Tupperware parties, the 1980s was the decade when we would sort it all out! Raging against ‘the system’…. The Personal is Political…. Reclaim the Night…....
by howl | May 19, 2023 | 1970s, campaigns, Groups
Author: Catriona Courtier Year: 1970s Here we are, a dozen old women writing a history of women’s liberation. How did it start for me? I saw a notice in the 70s about a meeting to set up a women’s centre and I went along. We did set up that centre and it existed for...
