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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

Image of two women resting in bed. One is sleeping and one looks drowsily at the camera. A duplicate print is in the same box (SWA.379ii)

'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

Serena photographed women, famous, at work and play and generally going about their business. These photographs are taken around the streets of Islington where Serena lived. A snapshot of the lives of women in the 1970s.

'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…

A poster of a young Paul Newman hangs on a beam.

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

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.

Written on the back of the print by Serena Wadham:
'at Kingsgate Womens' centre, women are shown how to examine their own cervix with the help of a speculum, a torch, and a mirror.'

on the back of the print written by Serena Wadham
"Edward Praed only ad sindicate' Hard to read

Written on the back by Serena Wadham;
'A>P>S> Classes Junior 3 and 4 and Rabbi WILSCHANSKI reading the weekly portion of the law after Friday morning assembly'