ABSTRACT
On 2 and 3 March 1990, celebrations to mark the twentieth anniversary of Britain’s first Women’s Liberation conference were held at Ruskin College, Oxford. We might never have known about it had we not been listening to Women’s Hour. Apart from this one plug, publicity for the event seemed to be limited to a few posters. Yet we’d heard so much about what had happened twenty years ago (when almost 600 women had, against all the odds, taken over the male domain of Ruskin College to discuss women’s liberation) that we telephoned immediately for tickets. We were disappointed to find we could only buy tickets for the main Saturday event and not for the Friday evening social. Nevertheless we arrived full of anticipation expecting to find a massive gathering of women.
