Comments on: East End Women Take Action

By: Bailey Jones

Bailey Jones — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 12:31:11 +0000

Fantastic social history. I am amazed BAFTA hired out its premises to arms traders during the 80s.

By: gary arber

gary arber — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:46:44 +0000

The highly talented David Hoffman doing what he does best.
Wherever there is action David is in the thick of it, from Wapping, The Pole Tax Riots, onwards
He has been jostled, manhandled, and had his teeth knocked out, but nothing stops him.
His extensive photo library will be used by generations to come as a record of our times.
Gary

By: Amanda Root

Amanda Root — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 08:50:23 +0000

Brilliant. Wonderful pictures of East Enders’ activism. It has continued through each decade… My mother (who lived in Romford all her life and died of dementia last year) played a small part in this. In the early 1960s I remember my brother and I being looked after one evening by my father, as this was very unusual. My mother had gone to Trafalgar Square and laid down to block the road as part of a ‘Ban the Bomb’ CND protest. She was fined, a cost which was quite hard for her to pay. Great memories. Wonderful people.

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 07:53:22 +0000

These women were so strong and determined, the world needs more people like that. Valerie

By: Caroline Bottomley

Caroline Bottomley — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 07:36:40 +0000

Great documentation.
I was in Sheffield at the time working at a venue. We did a lot of fundraising for Greenham Common and Miner’s Wives. Went on some picket lines too, which was both scary & exhilarating.
Nearly everyone in Yorkshire wore the yellow ‘Coal not Dole’ stickers – it was weird coming down to London during the strike, where hardly anyone was wearing stickers (though there were some).

By: Phil Maxwell

Phil Maxwell — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 06:54:56 +0000

More great work from David Hoffman. Women are still fighting for the same justice today. There are a few familiar faces in this collection!