Introduction

So opens one of the webpages associated with the Greenham Women Everywhere project, instigated by Rebecca Mordan of feminist production hub Scary Little Girls, and Kate Kerrow of women’s history online publication, The Heroine Collective. Although their project title drew inspiration from a multi-voiced book from the early days of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, one that emphasised the camp’s wider network and legacies (Cook and Kirk, 1983), Rebecca and Kate nonetheless feared that Greenham stories were in danger of being entirely lost from public and activist memory, or replaced by tabloid distortions. They thus wanted not only to recover the voices of Greenham, but also to find creative ways to engage a wider and younger audience. In collaboration with co-worker Vanessa Pini and Greenham woman Jill (Ray) Raymond, and many other individuals and institutions, Rebecca and Kate have produced an online archive of testimonies from Greenham women (Greenham Women Everywhere, 2021). The project has also generated a multimedia touring exhibition; online events (concerts, book readings and theatrical performances); an interactive ‘virtual reality’ website aimed at enabling a new generation to re-imagine life at the camp (Greenham Women Digital, nd); and a book (Kerrow and Mordan, 2021).