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If you want to learn more about the women who fought for our rights, you don’t have to limit yourself to books. The UK is dotted with fascinating museums and libraries dedicated to feminism ...
This chapter examines women’s role as visitors to museums, looking first at how women visitors were perceived – where there was a change from see.
- Introduction
- The Women's Library Collection
- UNESCO-recognised Collection
- Searching The Collection
- How to Access
- Further Information
- The Friends of The Women's Library
The Women’s Library is the oldest and largest library in Britain devoted to the history of women’s campaigning and activism. It was officially inaugurated as the Library of the London Society for Women’s Service in 1926 and it had two aims: to preserve the history of the women’s suffrage movement and to provide a resource for newly-enfranchised wom...
The Women’s Library is a library, archive and museum and the collection follows the history of feminism from the late 19th century to the present day. Here are some of the themes of the collection.
The collection includes UNESCO-recognised women’s suffrage archive documents. In 2011, eight documents from the Women’s Library and the Parliamentary Archives were recognised by UNESCO on their UK Memory of the World Register. These include: 1. The Mary Lowndes album [55Mb] of suffrage banner designs (also on Flickr). Find out more about Mary Lownd...
Use Library Searchto locate the books. These can also be browsed on the 3rd floor. Search Archives Cataloguefor archives and museum objects.
Most of the material highlighted here is stored in closed access and must be consulted in The Women’s Library Reading Room. Find out how to book your place and order material on our access archives and special collectionspage.
If you need specific help with any of the collections mentioned here get in touch with our Curator for Equality, Rights and Citizenship, Gillian Murphy.
The Friends of the Women's Librarysupport The Women's Library through funding acquisitions, digitisation and conservation projects, as did the Friends of the Fawcett Library, and their predecessors who founded and preserved the library of the post-suffrage National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship. The Friends of the Women's Library offer e...
Jun 16, 2019 · Women and museums 1850-1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge by Dr. Kate Hill. Dr. Kate Law / June 16, 2019. In this blog post, Dr. Kate Hill tells us about her new monograph which sheds light on women as museum workers, donors and visitors.
Between the 1880s-1970s, women started accessing decision-making roles in museums. This panel proposes a transnational exploration of both the contributions and the challenges of pioneering female curators regarding exhibition design, collection-making, and museum practice.
This exhibition highlights material owned, written, commissioned, and translated by women during the long early modern period. It celebrates the ways in which women and their books were an integral part of England’s devotional, intellectual, and bibliographical cultures.
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Feb 19, 2020 · In time for International Women’s Day, next month here is our ultimate round-up of the best women’s museums in the UK – as chosen by expert female travel bloggers. Glasgow Women’s Library, Scotland
