But the Ruskin conference was, for the women who gathered there, a heady moment of consolidation. anticolonial and pro-democracy struggles in Europe, Asia, and Latin America and working-class women’s strikes closer to home, in Dagenham and Hull. Women’s-liberation groups had already been meeting across Britain, inspired variously by the high-profile women’s movement in the U.S. In 1970, it was the site of the inaugural National Women’s Liberation Movement Conference. Ruskin College, in Oxford, England, was founded in 1899 to serve working-class men who were otherwise excluded from higher education, and went coed in 1919. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
