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Never Give Up - cartoon by Jackie Fleming. Women with feminist logo on T-shirt jumping in the air with caption Never Give Up

Voicing our experience from 1979 onwards

The Women in Publishing Oral History website celebrates the achievements of women in book publishing during the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s – vital decades for both feminism and professional advancement of women in the UK.  Coming together in 1979 to create their own networking organisation, members of Women in Publishing remember the challenges they faced, the problems they overcame, and how, through striving for greater equality, they changed the industry in which they worked.

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Featured audio
  • Jane Cholmeley

    https://www.womeninpublishinghistory.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/14-Jane-Cholmeley-reflects-WiP-as-a-template.mp3
    Transcript: 14 Jane Cholmeley on the various waves of feminism and how WiP may be a template for the future
  • Clare Baker

    https://www.womeninpublishinghistory.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/6-Clare-Baker-discusses-the-glass-ceiling-and-Twice-as-Many-Half-as-Powerful.mp3
    Transcript: 6 Clare Baker discusses the glass ceiling and 'Twice and Many, Half as Powerful'
  • Gail Rebuck

    https://www.womeninpublishinghistory.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/9-Gail-Rebuck-remembers-the-day-she-became-CEO-of-Random-House-UK.mp3
    Transcript: 8 Gail Rebuck remembers the day she became CEO of Random House UK
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  • A Gentleman's Profession

  • The Beginning of Women in Publishing

  • Changing the Status Quo

  • Celebrating Women's Achievements

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