In the 1950s, left-leaning singers such as Paul Robeson and The Weavers began to find that life became difficult because of the influence of McCarthyism.

[2] In 1957, the US State Department had opposed Seeger's attending the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow[3] (where the CIA had monitored the US delegation), and was vigorously critical about her having gone to China during that trip, against official "advice".

Previously married to director and actress Joan Littlewood, MacColl left his second wife, Jean Newlove, to become Seeger's lover.

This marriage of convenience allowed Seeger to gain British citizenship and continue her relationship with MacColl.

[citation needed] Seeger was a leader in the introduction of the concertina to the English folk music revival.

"[8] The documentary film A Kind of Exile was a profile of Seeger and also featured Ewan MacColl.

The Critics Group evolved into a performance ensemble seeking to perform satirical songs in a mixture of theatre, comedy and song, which eventually created a series of annual productions called "The Festival of Fools" (named for a traditional British Isles event in which greater freedom of expression was allowed for the subjects of the king than was permitted during most of the year).

She visited the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, where protests against US cruise missiles were concentrated.

In most of his songs, men are digging, slashing, cutting, building, re-shaping, raping, controlling, humanising the earth and being praised for doing so for the good of mankind.

Even where it is obvious that both sexes are being referred to, Ewan (like myself in my early songs and like most people in our patriarchal society) employs masculine pronouns.In 2006, Peggy Seeger relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, to accept a part-time teaching position at Northeastern University.

In 2008, she began producing music videos pertaining to the Presidential campaigns, making them available through a YouTube page.

In it she details a relationship she began with the traditional singer Irene Pyper-Scott (who lives in New Zealand) after Ewan MacColl died.