by howl | Apr 29, 2026 | Culture, First memories of getting involved, Stories, Women at work
By Carol Smith I was born in 1952, and was brought up Catholic. I went to a convent secondary school where the head nun was virtually a socialist feminist, albeit in a subtle sort of way! Perhaps she was an early liberation theologist? My mother was downtrodden and...
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 | May 24, 2023 | campaigns, First memories of getting involved, Groups
By Wendy Knight I was born in 1954 and grew up in Hackney in a Catholic family living on a council estate. When I was 18, working as a waitress on an Isle of Wight holiday, camp I met Jeff, a barman who was from a council estate in Brighton. Ten months later we were...
by howl | May 24, 2023 | 1980s, Culture, Groups, Publishing
By Sue O’Sullivan When I joined Sheba Feminist Publishers in 1986 its office was on Bradbury Street in Dalston, which we affectionately called the Street of Many Co-ops. In good weather we kept our front door open for air and light, as there were virtually no windows....
by howl | May 24, 2023 | Culture, Groups
By Sue O’Sullivan The self-deprecating sort Fascination How could I find the time? Baby sucking all my energy Body bedraggled In drawings and photos they all look so free Long wind-swept hair white hippy girls Not me with a devoted husband Married to stay in the...
by howl | May 24, 2023 | 1980s, campaigns, Groups
By Jennie Lazenby 1980s Bizarrely, I only realised I really wanted to have children once I felt sure I was a lesbian. In 1986 I met a woman, who became a long– term partner. We decided to adopt children together. This was partly because we knew it was just beginning...
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 | campaigns, Groups
Author: Stephanie Henthorne 1970s My parents’ JOINT passport from the 1950s This image symbolises everything that led me towards the struggle for gender equality. The passport is in my father’s name. He is the ‘Bearer’, the woman simply ‘Wife’. Wife of = property....
by howl | May 19, 2023 | 1970s, campaigns, Groups
Author: Jennie Lazenby 1970s This is the tale of a Proud Lesbian Socialist Feminist Adoptive mum Who at the beginning could not see herself in that way (Apart from the Socialist bit) I believed the way that women burned their bras on TV was not for me Once again the...
by howl | May 19, 2023 | 1970s, Groups
Author: Helen Bishop In 1977 we had no internet, no personal computers, no mobile phones, just landlines at home (many didn’t have one) and phone boxes (often vandalised). Women’s Liberation operated via word of mouth, or listings such as the Earlham St London Women’s...
