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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.

Four policemen talk together outside an illegal squat in Ilford. Three faces look out from the building, one person has a loudspeaker and posters in the window declare 'Occupied by London Squatters'.

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham :
"Entering Powis Square, Notting Hill, just after it had been liberated on the 15th June 1968."

Police remove a student protester. Part of Serena's documentation of 'sit-ins' in art colleges in 1968.

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham :
"At Guildford the students wired this generator to replace the electricity which had been cut off"

One of Serena's photographs of the characters around her home in Islington in the 1960s and 70s. Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham : 'Ted Child and Wendy'

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham :
"Pauline Fuller shows a pupil how to angle her legfor a karate kick"

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham :
"Ani Gale (R) Captain of the British section of the Women's International Motorcycle Association, welcomes a new arrival at the annual rally near Coventry"

Despite an early crash that prevented her becoming a professional musician, Serena Wadham was a lifelong motorcycling enthusiast and belonged to at least one women's biking organisation.

written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham:
"Daisy Nolan Teleprinters P.O. factory in Islington"

"Mrs Watson loves driving her coach. She drives from Addlestone to Stevenage every day. The 70 miles take 3½ hours, and she has 15 minutes to check the money. Her husband drives a bus".

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham
'A woman preaches at Speakers' Corner'
(Summer 1975)

Mrs Pat Hanlon at her shop where she sells and repairs bicycles.

Written by Serena Wadham on reverse of print:
"Dr Young of the Thames Water Authority steering their scientific pollution control vessel, "Thames Water'. She is a biologist."

Kate Millett, a British born American writer and feminist, author of the bestselling 'Sexual Politics' (1970) and founder of the Women's Art Colony at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Times magazine described her as "the Mao Tse-tung of Womens' Liberation".