History Archives - Woman's Place UK

Kiri Tunks wins NEU Annie Higdon Award 2022

Our co-founder and director, Kiri Tunks, has won the National Education Union's Annie Higdon Award for challenging sexism and engaging women in union activity. Read Kiri's acceptance speech and...

Poster from US 1970s women's campaign against forced sterilization

Keira Bell v Tavistock: Women’s Rights, Healthcare, and the Law

Keira Bell and the history of women’s rights, healthcare and the law In 1976 Loretta Ross sued and won a case against A. H. Robbins, the manufacturer of the...

The Political Erasure of Sex

We are delighted to be supporting this important new work by Jane Clare Jones. We reproduce here the blurb from the Political Erasure of Sex website: “The Political Erasure...

Solidarity with Selina Todd and Senia Paseta

We are delighted to hear of the establishment of the Women’s Equality and Inequality Research Programme and that Professors Selina Todd and Senia Paseta will be leading this important...

Standing on the shoulders of giantesses: working-class women suffragettes: Louise Raw

Louise Raw is a writer and historian with a particular interest in the less-told stories of British history: of women, the working class and BME people. The Suffrage...

Girlguiding: campfires, crafts and compelled belief: Helen Watts

Helen Watts was involved in Girlguiding as a child and adult. Since 2018, she has been campaigned for Girlguiding to review their trans policy, which breaches girls’ right to...

There’s more than one way to ‘erase’ women – Women’s rights under attack in Victor Orban’s Hungary: Jayne Egerton

Jayne Egerton is a socialist feminist & radio producer. On 28th May Hungary’s Parliament signed a bill into law which ends legal recognition for transgender people. The votes of...

You ignore us at your peril: Kiri Tunks

This is the text version of the speech Kiri Tunks gave on behalf of Woman’s Place UK at the Labour Women’s Declaration #ExpelMe rally on Monday 9th March 2020....

This is a movement: Kiri Tunks

Kiri Tunks is a teacher and trade union activist. She is a co-founder of Woman’s Place UK. This is the speech she gave on the closing plenary of the...

50 Years of Women’s Liberation in the UK: Pragna Patel

Pragna Patel is a founding member of Southall Black Sisters’ advocacy and campaigning centre and Women Against Fundamentalism (now non-operational). She worked as a coordinator and senior case worker...

Until all our sisters are free: Paula Boulton

Paula Boulton is a musician, playwright and granddaughter of one of the first women Labour councillors. This post was first published on Facebook. We are republishing it here with...

5 questions for your Prospective Parliamentary Candidates

In the forthcoming General Election, it is important to make sure that issues of concern to women are at the forefront of political campaigning and that women know what...

One Possibility: Susan Matthews at A Woman’s Place is at the lectern

Susan Matthews is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Roehampton University. Susan Matthews writes for Transgender Trend and has contributed to two edited collections on the transgender child. She...

Power and history: Selina Todd at A Woman’s Place is at the lectern

Selina Todd is Professor of Modern History at Oxford University. Her research focuses on women, feminism and working-class life in modern Britain. She is the author of the bestseller The People....

“Both patriarchy and capitalism benefit from a depoliticised feminist movement”: Towanda Rebels

This article is part of a series of interviews featuring international perspectives on the ramifications of the concept of ‘gender identity’ within public policy. We are grateful to all...

I am not your enemy: let’s talk

This is the text of the speech Dani Ahrens gave at the Woman’s Place UK fringe meeting at Labour Party conference in Brighton on 23rd September 2019. It was...

Press coverage of 1970s equality laws

We have pulled together a second Twitter thread created by Lisa Mackenzie, a feminist and independent policy analyst. This thread summarises some of the press coverage surrounding the Equal...

Stand up, speak out: Julie Bindel

Julie Bindel is a journalist, writer, broadcaster and researcher active in the global campaign to end violence towards women and children since 1979. She is talking here at the...

Feminism, postmodernism and women’s oppression

Professor Selina Todd is Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford. She spoke at our London meeting, A Woman’s Place is back in town in London on 20th May 2019. You can download...