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 | Mar 3, 2026 | 1970s, 1980s, campaigns, Publishing
By Helen Martins Getting a Reader Pass at the British Library had been on my bucket list for a long time. When I finally got round to organising this a few years ago, the person at the registration desk asked me what I wanted to study. My reply was “the history of the...
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 | 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...
