Welcome to the Chronology of the WLM in Britain
1965-1979
The Chronology presented here is an updated and expanded version of our original paper-format compilation. Wherever possible, we have tried to link to additional materials available on the internet, as well as to digital copies of materials available in the archive itself. We also hold a collection of Oral History Interviews from women active in the WLM in Leeds and Bradford.
Navigating through the Chronology can easily be accomplished by using the dates at the top of the page. Alternately, there are ‘Previous’ and ‘Next’ options at the top of each page. Following these will take you page by page through the entire document.
A quick browse through the origin and the organisation of the chronology may also be helpful before you begin.
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Key to symbols used:
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FAN has at least one issue of this journal/newsletter |
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FAN has a complete run of this journal/ newsletter. |
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FAN has a file containing information from this conference |
Feminist Small Press Books and Pamphlets on the WLM in Britain:
~ Graham, et al. (2003) The Feminist Seventies York, UK: Raw Nerve Books
~ Fairbairns, Zoe (2003) Saying What We Want: Women’s Demands in the Feminist Seventies and Now, York, UK: Raw Nerve Books
Additional external sites of interest:
~ Cliff, Tony (1984) Class Struggle and Women’s Liberation [particularly Chapter 11 – The WLM in Britain], from the Marxist Internet Archive
~ Documents from the Women’s Liberation Movement: An Online Archival Collection at Duke University (US)
~ Feminist Seventies Conference at the University of York, April 2002
~ Hanmer, Jalna – Making Connections: Researching Gendered Violence
~ German, Lindsey (2003) Women’s Liberation Today. International Socialism Journal 101 [online]
~ Lefties: Angry Wimmin, a BBC4 Documentary on Revolutionary Feminists in Leeds
~ Setch, Eve* (2002) The Face of Metropolitan Feminism: The London Women’s Liberation Workshop, 1969–79. Twentieth Century British History 13(2):171-190
~ The Women’s Library, Catalogue of Women’s Liberation Movement resources
~ Women in Politics*, Special Issue of Parliamentary Affairs, January 1996
~ Yorkshire Women of the Century
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