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		<title>Sisterhood and After: The Women’s Liberation Oral History Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each of the 60 women activists recorded for this project campaigned for equality and freedom in the 1960s, 70s and 80s ... Given that the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain was a mass movement involving thousands of women from all over the country and from all walks of life, selecting just 60 to record was a challenge ... These women demanded that struggles for gender rights be won at home as well as in the public sphere. They describe their own experiences as girls, socialised to expect less than their brothers. They also describe a rich range of political heritages that informed British feminism, from Black Power to Gay Liberation to socialism and disability rights.]]></description>
		<link>http://womenshistorynetwork.org/blog/?p=2504</link>
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		<title>Fergie and the Funeral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of all the celebrities that went along [to the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, Sarah Ferguson's] presence seemed the most apt.  Her heyday in the mid-1980s coincided with the zenith of Thatcherism, and the confluence of the two is not surprising.  On the contrary, the Duchess of York is one of many examples of women in the royal family coming to epitomize the zeitgeist of their period.  Royal women have long served as a heavily gendered repository for the nation’s hopes and aspirations, their public personas becoming inextricably linked with contemporary ideals of femininity.  I]]></description>
		<link>http://womenshistorynetwork.org/blog/?p=2468</link>
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		<title>Virtue &amp; Vice: Reflecting on Women&#8217;s History at Hardwick Hall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[...  we also wish to highlight moments from the lives of less visible, but equally resourceful, women: Jacqueline Vautrollier, for example, wife of the Huguenot refugee printer, Thomas Vautrollier, who ran the printing business when her husband was away from London, and again after his death. We consider too the domestic and professional clothworkers who made the materials which went into the magnificent hangings and tapestries brought together at Hardwick.]]></description>
		<link>http://womenshistorynetwork.org/blog/?p=2442</link>
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		<title>Media &amp; The Woman &#8230; The Right to Write &amp; Be Read &#8211; Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The worst anecdotes, just as Dr North reported, came from colleagues in commercial TV newsrooms, with some truly shocking me. In one case, a 30 something reporter, winner of a recent prize in investigative reporting, told me how she asked privately not to work with a particular producer due to his insistent lewd comments and behaviour. She asked her superiors that her name not be mentioned as she did not want to make a formal complaint. The man was not only told of her complaint but he then turned the tables on her warning colleagues and cameramen against her and making her work life impossible. She has now moved and is working at the public broadcaster. Another described standing open mouthed as an executive, in his late fifties stood beside her and worked his way through a list of pretty much every older woman in ]]></description>
		<link>http://womenshistorynetwork.org/blog/?p=2389</link>
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		<title>Media &amp; The Woman &#8230; Reflections on the Right to Write &amp; Be Read &#8211; Pt 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I, like so many correspondents of this era have had to revolutionize the way I work – from an often barely daily deadline and workload to a virtual 24/7, stand alone operation. As Vice President of the Foreign Press Association in London, 125 years old this year, I have been intrigued thinking back to the old guard, the newspaper correspondents, pretty much all of them male, who filed once every couple of weeks from the outposts of the empire, including often horrendous theatres of war, to newspapers back home.]]></description>
		<link>http://womenshistorynetwork.org/blog/?p=2384</link>
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		<title>Media &amp; The Woman &#8230; Reflections on the Right to Write &amp; Be Read &#8211; Pt 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fight was never ending to get placement for stories about equal pay and equal opportunity, welfare, reproductive rights, balancing family life, stories about childbirth, about breast feeding into the paper, let alone onto page one alongside the nation’s male dominated political affairs. One year, this same colleague reminded me, childcare fees rocketed by 25 per cent in one go – none of us even had kids then but she remembers it took a full week of lobbying to get an editor (whose wife happened to be a feminist and mum of two young children) – to agree to running the story, let alone putting it on page one where it belonged.]]></description>
		<link>http://womenshistorynetwork.org/blog/?p=2379</link>
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		<title>Mapping Famous Women&#8217;s Lives &#8211; Writers &amp; Artists in London&#8217;s History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I understood Miranda Seymour’s lovely description of being at Shelley’s house on Skinner Street, where she found herself “walking the streets of London in a daze. There are no paving stones beneath your feet, no cars, no office blocks. You hear the clatter of iron wheels, smell the horse dung, see, in a sudden swish of black silk and the glimpse of a shawl, Mary and Claire hurrying down a narrow street towards the carriage where Shelly is waiting in 1814, to lead them to adventures such as these two impatient, headstrong young women have only read about in novels.” So walking around, A-Z in hand, locating the Skinner Street house and Shelley’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft’s place of marriage and burial, opened London up to me in a new and wonderful way and I realised the historical wealth of women’s lives that were quietly contained in this great city.]]></description>
		<link>http://womenshistorynetwork.org/blog/?p=2371</link>
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		<title>Women, Politics, Parliaments &#8211; Bringing about Democracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just as men do not accept that the right to vote is sufficient - Parliamentary representation must be possible for all men, or at least all men are entitled to seek parliamentary places - neither do women accept that the vote is enough. Democracy means that women and men must have the right to vote for women or men as members of Parliament. Democracy means that women and men must have the right to stand for Parliament.

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		<link>http://womenshistorynetwork.org/blog/?p=2273</link>
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		<title>Searching for the &#8216;Invisible Woman&#8217;: Working with (and subverting) the archives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What problems do archives raise in trying to reconstruct the lives of women who leave no written record? My first contact with these problems relating to sources can be traced back nearly 40 years ago to my post-graduate studies at the University of Waterloo in Canada. As part of my Master’s course I took a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womenshistorynetwork.org/blog/?p=2325</link>
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		<title>&#8216;The Good &amp; The Bad&#8217; &#8211; WILPF on CSW 57</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background Many women and women&#8217;s organisations participated in CSW 57 &#8211; as official delegates &#8216;inside&#8217; the UN and as members of NGOs in side events and (sometimes) observers at the official discussion and debate on &#8216;Ending Violence against Women &#38; Girls&#8217;. Here, WILPF (Women&#8217;s International League for Peace and Freedom&#8217;) reflects on CSW 57: the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://womenshistorynetwork.org/blog/?p=2331</link>
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