Promise of a Dream

At the beginning of the decade renowned historian Sheila Rowbotham was a rebellious sixteen-year-old at a Methodist boarding school in the north-east of England, reading Sartre and dreaming of Paris. By the end of the sixties she was a seasoned political activist, planning Britain''s first-ever women''s liberation conference, and beginning to find her voice as a writer.
Her story of the intervening...