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Dreams of ‘something better’: Exploring childcare alternatives from the First Neighbourhood Co-operative Nursery to ‘My Mum is on Strike.’
By Rosa Campbell @rrrosavalerie In the late 1970s, parents in Walthamstow, London started the first neighbourhood co-operative nursery which officially opened in 1986 and closed in 1993. To celebrate this, the oral history collective On the Record has put together an exhibition at the Mill, a community centre in Tottenham called ‘Doing it Ourselves.’
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6. Womanopoly
By Rebecca Goldsmith (@rebeccagold123) Womanopoly, a board game created by activist and writer Stella Dadzie in the late 1970s, offers an unusual yet productive entry-point for examining late twentieth-century British feminism. The game moves through the life-stages of education, work, politics and the home, in each case capturing the contrasting experiences of men and women;…
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How to build powerful advocacy movements: lessons from the 1960s Ugandan women’s movement
By Livia Eva Karoui (@LiviaEva) On March 22, 1960, women from across Uganda arrived at the National Cultural Centre in Kampala for the Conference on the Status of Women in Relation to the Marriage Laws. They represented 12 of the 17 districts of Uganda and all its major religious denominations. They were white British women,…
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