by howl | Aug 10, 2026 | 1970s, campaigns, Conference, Groups, Stories, Women at work
More original newsletter articles, introduced by Joan Harries and Sheila Wentworth INTRODUCTION In 1967 abortion was made legal in the UK. This was challenged several times by anti-choice (pro-life) organisations like the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child...
by howl | Jul 29, 2026 | 1970s, campaigns, Conference, Groups, Stories, Women at work
Original newsletter articles. Compiled and introduced by Joan Harries and Sheila Wentworth The North Staffs Women’s Action Group was correctly named – there was lots of action! Memories of the Group North Staffs Women’s Action Group/NSWA/NSWAG/Stoke Women’s Action...
by howl | Jul 22, 2026 | Friendship, Relationships, sex, family, Women at work
By Nicolle Freni Exploring My Lesbian Feminist Creativity In late 1978, after I learned I had cancer and underwent hard hitting but eventually successful treatment, Tierl Thompson and I decided we could no longer sustain our business running WRPM (Women’s Revolutions...
by howl | Jul 21, 2026 | campaigns, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Relationships, sex, family, Women at work
By Nicolle Freni Growing Up a Working-Class Young, Gay, Woman in Brooklyn You could say that being born into a poor, Italian American family in 1948 with typical immigrant problems and the Catholic religion determining a girl’s behaviour, led me straight to women’s...
by howl | Jul 17, 2026 | 1989, Publishing, Stories, Women at work
The Times Higher Education Supplement Last week I attended what I consider to be a quite momentous occasion. It was the launch of a book put together by the Jewish women in London group entitled Generations of memories: Voices of Jewish Women. The launch was not just...
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 | Apr 28, 2026 | Stories
by Judy Greenway In 2010, when I was in my sixties, I was interviewed for an undergraduate dissertation on the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. As my memory was better then than it is now, here is the more autobiographical part of that interview. I grew...
by howl | Feb 27, 2026 | 1970s, Groups, Publishing, Women at work
By Barbara Ridley I cycled the three miles home from the hospital after my eight-hour evening shift and manoeuvred my bike into its slot in the hallway, before walking through the living room to get myself a cup of tea from the kitchen. I would have been wearing my...
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 19, 2026 | 1975, Culture, Publishing, Stories, Women at work
By Mary Chamberlain Photos by Angela Phillips I first met Angela Phillips, then a photographer, in 1971 when I joined Women’s Lobby (later, Women’s Report Collective) of which she had been a founder member. Our aim was to raise awareness of women’s issues and to lobby...
