This paper focuses on the History Workshop Movement and its effects on the first National Women's Liberation Conference (Ruskin Conference) through examination of studies made by the founder of the movement, Raphael Samuel.

  The History Workshop Movement, considered by Raphael Samuel as a matter of adult education both inside and outside Ruskin College, was critical of specialization in history and strove to combine the three elements of research, learning and education. The activity of the workshop led learners to understand society in terms of their own existence as combining elements of labour and common everyday life.

  Seen as the beginning of second wave feminism in the UK, the Ruskin Conference held at Ruskin College in 1970 was concerned with an understanding of the power relationships between males and females as considered from the viewpoint of working women and their experience of both labour and common everyday life. It was upon the integrated grasp of labour and life as originated from Raphael Samuel and the History Workshop that the women's liberation movement in the UK was founded.