 There is also a strong interest in political action tied into their working-class roots and during the 1960s and 1970s the family played a part in organizations.Eleanor Hind was a member of Glasgow Women Against the Bomb and the family participated in protests.Slane's family, the Zams, were Russian Jews who had fled the Pogroms in the Ukraine, arriving in Scotland between 1904–1912, and settling at first in Glasgow.