by howl | Jan 9, 2026 | 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980s, 1981, campaigns, First memories of getting involved, Groups
Consciousness Raising Group with Essex University lake and tower blocks (Amber Djemal, Lynne Friedli and others) Amber Djemal Before arriving at Essex University, aged 18 in 1978, I had become aware of Feminism due to an action I had been involved in at school in...
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 | Apr 13, 2025 | 1980s, campaigns, Groups
(opened 1983, closed 2012) Angie Birtill discusses her involvement with Ann Rossiter of HOWL Angie: I worked at the London Irish Women’s Centre on housing, welfare and employment rights for twelve years. The Centre was run as a feminist collective where...
by howl | Feb 20, 2025 | campaigns, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Women at work
By Jeanne Rathbone Coming from a family of six women in a Catholic Ireland is a good start. In 1965 I failed at university, studying science in Galway, so I came to London as a teenager joining one of my sisters. I could not see myself continuing to live in Ireland,...
by howl-team | Mar 6, 2024 | 1970s, campaigns, Groups
Bernadette Hyland This is a picture of me in 1977 picketing Hull Irish Catholic MP Kevin McNamara’s surgery alongside other women and men in the local National Abortion Campaign branch. Later, he was as useless for the Irish community...
by howl-team | Nov 8, 2023 | 1990’s, Stories
Author: Ann Rossiter Once upon a time, sometime in the early 1970s, I remember that an eclectic mix of feminists including British, continental European, North American, Antipodean, and Irish, used to flock to various Women’s Liberation group meetings in a dingy,...
by howl-team | Oct 10, 2023 | 1973, 1974, campaigns
Nettie: We first met in early 1973 in the Women on Ireland Collective which held regular meetings at the Kingsgate Women’s Centre in Kilburn, west London. Although my family and personal background was in Left politics, and in the early 1970s I had become far more...
