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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...
- 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...
Explore the women’s rights collection on LSE Digital Library. It contains two sets of suffrage newspapers and journals , pamphlets and leaflets and the annual reports of suffrage groups , covering the campaign from the late 19th century to 1928 when women achieved equal voting rights with men.
Mar 18, 2019 · To illustrate the power of posters and their prominence in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, I now discuss two posters available from the London School of Economics’ Picture Library.
Feb 19, 2020 · Where to explore women’s history in the UK. From country houses where great novels were written to hospitals where famous medical professionals served and castles where queens ruled from, this article will show you the best places to explore the history of famous women in the UK.
Nov 25, 2022 · This talk, given at the London Library, traces the links between the Library, its members and the women’s suffrage campaign. Founded in 1841 by, among others, John Stuart Mill, the Liberal philosopher and MP who, 25 years later, gave the women’s suffrage campaign its first impetus, the London Library was always open to women subscribers ...
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The digital collections presented by The Women's Library collections include a large range of materials from journals to oral history to documents. These cover women's suffrage, women's liberation, peace campaigning, women pioneers and activists.
