12 February 2025 at 7pm
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Speaker: Sheila Rowbotham

I have done three memoirs of the 1960s. 70s and 80s – ‘Promise of a Dream’, ‘ Daring to Hope’ and ‘Reasons to Rebel’. I wrote these because I wanted to record and bring into view the radical people and movements and ideas which have influenced me in the hope that younger people miight find them interesting and begin to look at the recent past in more detail.

Sheila Rowbotham, who helped to start the women’s liberation movement in
Britain, was influenced by the ideas of history from below associated with the
History Workshops held at Ruskin College, Oxford. She has written widely on the
history of feminism and radical social movements. Her books include Edward
Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love (2008) Dreamers of a New Day (2010) and
Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers and Radicals in Britain and the United
States. (2016) She has also written memoirs of the 1960s and 70s, Promise of a
Dream and Daring to Hope followed, in 2024 by Reasons to Rebel: My Memories of
the 1980s