Author: Vivienne Griffiths

Vivienne has worked as a teacher, actor, gardener, librarian, wholefood shop partner, researcher, lecturer and teacher educator. A lifelong activist for women’s rights and social justice, she is also an anti-war and pro-Europe campaigner. She is now Emeritus Professor of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University and an English (TESOL) teacher.

Misogyny and blunders: a personal response to the seventies Yorkshire murders

Vivienne Griffiths 17 November 2020

Hearing about the death of Peter Sutcliffe took me back to the late 1970s, when I lived and worked in West Yorkshire. For several years, while his murders went unsolved, I and many other women in the area lived under a shadow of fear, stoked further by police ineptitude and lurid media reports about the […]