CATHERINE Thackray was, by all accounts, a feisty woman who was not afraid to fight for her anti-war beliefs.

She went to prison and was removed from the Huddersfield magistrates’ bench for them.

She also kept a diary and this was broadcast last January in a series for BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour called Writing The Century.

That diary is now available in Kirklees Library and in The Women's Library, which is part of London Metropolitan University, accessible on www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/about/ourhistory.cfm

As from this weekend it will be ‘like mother, like daughter’.

Becca said: “The Archivist at London Metro said I should get their Acquisition Board to consider the women’s issues in my adolescent diaries too.

“I told them I was hardly a political activist in my teens and that the diaries were mostly about boys, gangs, discos, dieting, spots, sex and scheming.

“And they said ‘Precisely – women’s issues!’

“Thus our 70s behaviour will be immortalised in their Archive.

“They want me to take the precaution of making an ‘anonymous’ record, a copy of which will also be in Huddersfield Library.”

Other than with special permission, the original diaries, pictured on this page, will be kept under wraps for 50 years.

“It’s a bit excessive when official state secrets are only concealed for 30 years, but they’re being cautious,” said Becca.

“I am tickled by the image of us old girls pottering along aged 100 to see the originals emerge and, as long as we have still retained our memories of youth, reliving those parties all over again.

“When I told my best friend of the time, Sarah, about it, since she features pretty prominently, she thought it good that it would provide proof to her daughters that she had a life which pre-dated them.

“Everyone seems to be amused and pleased about it. I wonder if our old teachers will be too!”

Becca will be leaving a CD transcript of her 1970s diaries on Saturday morning at the library.