6.30-8.30pm

97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL (map)‍

Writer and social historian Ken Worpole and writer and historian Sheila Rowbotham discuss radical social action in the 1970s, focusing on Shelia’s book Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s (Verso Books, 2021).

This event was part of the public programme for Peer’s exhibition we are a group of people composed of who we are, which was open from 23 June - 9 September 2023.


BIOGRAPHY
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Sheila Rowbotham helped to start the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain in the late 1960s while living in Hackney. Her early books during the 1970s on feminism and women’s history gained an international readership. She has written two memoirs of the 1960s and 70s when she was living in Hackney, Promise of a Dream and Daring to Hope, both published by Verso. Her book Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love was awarded the Lambda Literary Prize for Gay Biography in the US and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Rebel Crossings: New Women, Free Lovers, and Radicals in Britain and the United States earned her the Eccles British Library Writers’ Award. She was a professor of Gender and Labour Studies in the Labour Studies Unit in the Sociology Department at Manchester University and has been granted honorary degrees by the Universities of Sheffield, Bristol and Rouen.