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Learn about the Women’s Library which tells the story of women in the UK and the great political, economic and social changes of the past 150 years.
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.
Oct 24, 2022 · Women played fundamental roles in the development of London as a ‘science city’ in the period 1650–1800, but, unlike their male counterparts, tracing them in the historical record, archive or indeed the surviving material culture can be challenging.
Aug 20, 2012 · The Women’s Library houses the most extensive collection of women’s history in Europe. It is also the second oldest women’s library in the world after Barcelona’s Biblioteca...
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.
Nov 15, 2018 · The Feminist Library is currently crowdfunding for its move to a new, more suitable home. This news comes after a long struggle against eviction and unsustainable rent increases that the Library has faced over the years (you can read more about the Save the Feminist Library campaign here ).
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It argues that the design of the building is implicitly feminist through its site, deference to history, the absence of spatial hierarchies, its environmental position, and its relationship to ...
