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'Fracas at El Vino's
"The City is a man's world. But at El Vino's women are welcome in the back room". A classic feminist cause celebre was the campaign to win equal treatment for women in this legendary legal and financial bar

'Fracas at El Vino's
written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham :
"The City is a man's world. But at El Vino's women are welcome in the back room".
A classic feminist cause celebre was the campaign to win equal treatment for women in this…

'Fracas at El Vino's'
"The City is a man's world. But at El Vino's women are welcome in the back room". A classic feminist cause celebre was the campaign to win equal treatment for women in this legendary legal and financial bar

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham:
"Furnished" accommodation in Notting Hill. 1968

A passenger sits waiting, reading a newspaper.

A porter talks to some customers at Victora Station

E M Forster OM Novelist and author of A Passage to India, Howards End, A room witha View, and other works.

A British feminist and film-maker, McKenzie made her name with 'Women Talking' (1970)-interviews with leaders of the American Women's Liberation Movement, and the BBC docudrama series 'Shoulder to Shoulder'(1975) about British Suffragettes.

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham:
'Midge McKenzie, director checks the framing of a shot during the making of a TV commercial.'
A British feminist and film-maker, McKenzie made her name with 'Women Talking' (1970)-interviews with…

Mariella Novotney, Sixties mini-icon and author of the novel, 'King's Road', who briefly amused the media with her Barbarella-like look and comic utterances such as "I'm only good at two things. One is writing; the other is making love".

A typed label fixed to the back of the print reads:
'British Writers:
Mary Stott
OPS Mary Stott, British writer and journalist whose latest book "Women Talking" was released by Pandora in 1987. She was the Editor of the Guardian Women's Page from…

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham:
'Richard Rodnet Bennett composer
Susan Bradshaw: pianist and composer.'

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham:
'Boulez conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, London.
Note that his conducting technique is quite unique: he can & does conduct 4 players at once. Each in a different …

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham:
'Suffragette (v old)
Dame Margery Corbett-Ashby, suffragist, 98. Speaking at Women's Action Day on 27-11-80.'

American artist and feminist activist, creator of the celebrated 'vulvar' installation, 'The Dinner Party' (1979)

Since the early 1920s the Women's pond has been a secluded oasis popular with North London women for both swimming - especially after the pike were removed - and socialising.

A man looks at the sign for "Ladies and girl swimmers only' on Hampstead Heath.