Sleeping bags were laid out on our floor for visitors. At a conference in Manchester, the Free Trade Hall was packed, the atmosphere electric. I have a hazy memory of going to a Liberation conference in west London and being met by a hectic buzz of revolutionary activity, where everything was possible. How did your involvement with the Women's Liberation Movement happen?īy the 1970s, everything was changing for women. In fact, five of us enjoyed a zoom call yesterday. Wow! And I made friends – and we remain good friends today. Suddenly, we were reading about street-corner sociologists in Chicago and compelling German political theorists.

I chose to study not history but new subjects. It was also a time when new universities were opening up. Including girls! The teacher rather grudgingly let me have an application form. (Of course, I didn't know about Robbins till decades later.) It stated any pupil with the right qualifications could go on to higher education. Going to university was just not on the horizon at all.Īround 1963 with the revolutionary Robbins Report.

Growing up as a girl in the 1950s was rather stultifying. Jill, can you tell us about your formative years? Jill describes how she met her life's partner, gives an evaluation of life in these parts, reveals her hobbies and choice of music, and reflects on the impact of Gentleman Jack on her own life and those of countless others. She details how the hidden history of Anne Lister came to light and her subsequent close involvement with Sally Wainwright, in the run up to the Gentleman Jack TV series. Jill describes her feeling of liberation at Keele in the 60s, her subsequent involvement in the women's movement her research into the lives of young suffragettes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, including her rediscovery of a brilliant writer and trail blazing suffragette from Hebden Bridge. Discover the life and times of historian, Jill Liddington.

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