The information presented in this chronology has been
compiled from journals contemporary to this time period:
Women's Report, the newsletter of the Women's Information
Referral and Enquiry Service (WIRES), Leeds Bread and
Roses, Shrew, Red
Rag, Leeds Women's Liberation Newsletter(s), Bradford
Women's Liberation Newsletter(s), Libertarian Women's
Network Newsheet / Newsletter, Women's Voice, Women's
Struggle Notes, Scarlet Women, Socialist Woman, Revolutionary
and Radical Feminist Newsletter (Rev/Rad), London Women's
Liberation Newsletter and Catcall.
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 |
FAN also has further information
contained within specific collections:
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Sandra McNeill's Women Against
Violence Against Women (WAVAW) |
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Feminist International Network
of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic
Engineering (FINRRAGE) |
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We have also looked at and included information from
various writings and research, including books, conference
papers from local, regional and national conferences,
interviews done for the Oral History Project (OHP) and
a list of women's liberation groups put together by
the London Women's Liberation Workshop for the 1973
National Women's Liberation Conference in Bristol.
References are made in the text according to a standard
Harvard format, with a complete
list provided. Information from the journals listed
above is not annotated, except when there is a direct
quote from the text. Where we have quoted from an editorial
or standard news column and the author(s) are not stated
in the original, we have provided the title of the journal,
issue and page number in the text for easy reference.
These citations are not then duplicated in the list
of references.
Local newsletters are not listed with the exception
of Leeds and Bradford newsletters - but it is likely
that every town with a women's liberation group also
had a newsletter. Many Women's Aid refuges and women's
centres also had a newsletter, as did most WLM organisations.
Most larger towns/cities not only had at least one women's
liberation group but also a socialist feminist group,
a women's health group, a lesbian group, etc. Clearly
it is impossible to list all of these groups here. However,
we have attempted to give some indication of the number
and variety of groups operating locally in this period
by providing detailed listings of WLM groups and campaigns
in the Leeds and Bradford area.
All organisation and journal listings are under the
first year in which we have found a reference to them.
For campaigns and organisations with groups across the
country (such as the Campaign for Legal and Financial
Independence), only the town of the main office (where
correspondence etc. was sent) and/or the first reference
to the group is included. All abbreviated
names are listed and explained in an appendix at
the back. The appendix section also includes a listing
of towns with women's organisations in this time,
and a listing of the seven demands
from the National Women's Liberation Movement Conferences
(1970-1978).
References to Oral History Project interviews in the
text refer to the approved transcripts from the OHP,
with the interviewee acknowledged and numbered chronologically.
These transcripts are available for consultation in
the Feminist Archive North.
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