The resource uses campaign material from the 1970s and 1980s in the Hall Carpenter Archives at LSE Library. The primary material is used to help explain terminology and introduce different forms of activism that helped change legislation as well as social and religious attitudes towards sexuality and same-sex relationships in Britain. This draws on material from activism carried out by members of The Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE), the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), OutRage! and the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement in the 1970s and 80s. A list of further reading and links to further resources, including digitised content, is available at the end of these notes. It covers the following curriculum topics and areas: RSE – Same Sex Relationships and Sexuality: tolerance towards others, how freedoms have come about in the UK, freedom of expression, campaigns for equality, positive relationships and an understanding of stereotypes. Citizenship – British Values: this reinforces tolerance around sexuality, how people form identity and how LGBTQIA people won rights in Britain. GCSE Religious Studies (AQA & OCR) – Relationships and Families: sexuality, homosexual relationships, same-sex marriage and co-habitation, same-sex parents. A Christian faith perspective that is positive around same-sex marriage and relationships.

A timeline of the main legal changes affecting women from 1918 to 1929 is available to download as a PowerPoint The Changing Role of Women 1918-1929. This can be used in topics around the changing role of women in British society, particularly between the wars, in History, Sociology and Religious Studies. Download a ‘newspaper’ of case studies of women (Helena Normanton, Mithan Tata, Mary Stott, Maude Royden) featured in the exhibition from law, journalism and the Church as well as contextual information. This can be used for comprehension exercises or topic information for the ‘changing role’ of women in British Society. Please note it prints at A3 but can be sized down.

The presentation presents Caroline Norton in Victorian Britain and the Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s as two case studies around campaigns to change the conditions of marriage. The first concentrated on establishing laws that a married woman was a person who could have her own income and access to her children. The second was on overthrowing the social and personal conditions that feminists argued oppressed women and towards gender equality in the UK. Family Functions can be used to look at the changing role of women in GCSE Religious Studies, Sociology and History. Curriculum links: • GCSE Religious Studies AQA 3.2.1 Theme A: Relationships and Families – Gender Equality; Religious Studies OCR J625 Relationships and Families / Challenges to religion – Secular attitudes / legal changes to marriage, divorce and gender roles within families in Britain. • GCSE Sociology AQA 3.3 Families – Conjugal role relationships and feminist views • GCSE History AQA BB Britain: Power and the people: Part 4. Equality and Rights – Women’s Rights. These are general background notes on to assist with the powerpoint and PDF print of the 1975 Why be A Wife Campaign leaflet. They do not follow the presentation exactly but assist with giving a wider context so you can adapt / use the powerpoint as you want to. This is resource was produced in tandem with our Spring 2020 exhibition Social Revolution: women’s liberation and gay liberation in the 1970s and 80s, marking 50 years since the beginnings of two significant social movements in the UK: the first women’s liberation conference in Oxford and the first UK meeting of the Gay Liberation Front at LSE.