This week in 1971

Equality March by Evening Standard

It’s been 50 years since the UK’s first women’s liberation march,in 2018, one of the organisers of the protest, Sheila Rowbotham, said, ‘What was vital for us was to recognise we actually had a presence – that we could mobilise on the streets. Before then, we’d had conferences, which several hundred people had attended – but this was on a bigger scale. We were visible to people, physically, as a movement.’