From feminist homes, peace camps, new selves and lovers, dress codes, parenting and refuges against male violence – this book ties the dreams of women's liberation to the larger arc of contemporary British history and places personal storytelling at its heart. Readable and relevant, this book is a deeply personal document of political change.

Lucy Delap, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge

Women's Liberation in the UK is a rich, deeply researched account of the women's liberation movement as it was lived and experienced across Britain. Drawing on an exceptional range of oral histories and personal testimony, Sue Bruley reconstructs the emotional, relational and political dimensions of a movement that transformed women's lives as well as public culture. Among its strengths is the book's illumination of the dynamic networks at the heart of the movement, evident in conferences, print cultures, local groups, women's centres and friendship. This is an important work of recovery history that offers a grounded and historically precise account of how the personal became political, and an invaluable resource for scholars of feminism, social movements and modern British history.

Professor Selina Todd, Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford

This book vividly recovers the voices and experiences of a broad swathe of UK women who embraced women's liberation in the 1970s and 1980s. Essential reading for historians of the period, a wonderful introduction to general readers and students.

Judith Walkowitz, Professor Emerita, Johns Hopkins University