Category: Video
This is an auto-generated list of our reader testimonies held on our YouTube channel.
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Nottingham Women’s History Group testimony (part 3 of 3)
The panel talk about how they met in the 1970s, networks in Nottingham. They talk about their archive at the Nottingham Women’s Centre and, among other magazine titles, Outwrite. LH: Is there anything else do you think I know you haven’t covered all our questions but I think we’ve covered the important ones. LH: I…
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Nottingham Women’s History Group testimony (part 2 of 3)
In the second part of their interview, the panel talks about humour in feminist magazines, the need to capture the stories of activists before they die and about the importance and sensitive nature of archiving radical ephemera, their current projects and activism, their Nottingham Feminist Archive Group LH: Can I return briefly to what we…
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Nottingham Women’s History Group testimony (part 1 of 3)
We interviewed a panel of feminist activists from Nottingham. Here they talk about their introduction to feminism and feminist magazines, how feminism influenced their professional practice and promoting local activism and local events through the feminist magazine network. OK, I’m Victoria Bazin and I am PI [Principal Investigator] of the Liberating Histories project and I’m…
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Rosie’s testimony (part 3 of 3)
In the third and final part of Rosie’s testimony she talks about moving to Newcastle and finding local networks via women’s magazines, her work with the Workers Educational Association (WEA) and “magazines” she reads now. Before I go on I just want to ask you Rosie if you remember any of the names of the…
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Rosie’s testimony (part 2 of 3)
In the second part of Rosie’s testimony she talks about her mother’s experiences and outlook, how the culture of a community can change how people think and how women’s magazines influenced the style of mainstream media. In a way, a lot of the questions have already been addressed. But I did want to go back…
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Rosie’s testimony (part 1 of 3)
In the first part of Rosie’s testimony she talks about her first encounters with Shrew in the early 1970s in a radical bookshop in Luton. She talks about her mother and her Northern Irish Catholic background, the importance of childcare and her interests in equal opportunities and equality for women. This is Victoria Bazin and…
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Sue’s testimony (part 3 of 3)
In the third and final part of Sue’s testimony she talks about how feminism helped to forge links across different groups and sections of society, about the power of collective experience in the 1980s and 90s and how it differs from today, and the rise of Lesbian Feminism. Joanne’s testimony (1 of 3) » “We…
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Sue’s testimony (part 2 of 3)
In the second part of Sue’s testimony she talks about the excitement of learning and understanding international issues and women’s universal experience and how reading magazines like Spare Rib and OutWrite helped her to develop a “feminist lens” to view conventional media through. She also talks about different feminisms, Lesbian and Gay activism and the…