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- The Women's Library is England's main library and museum resource on women and the women's movement, concentrating on Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has an institutional history as a coherent collection dating back to the mid-1920s, although its "core" collection dates from a library established by Ruth Cavendish Bentinck in 1909.
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Mar 28, 2024 · The Women’s Library provides substantial content for the Library’s social media. We use the collection to highlight a wide range of women’s history, but also touch on issues around race, class, sexuality, colonialism and cultural norms to embrace the intersectionality of the collection and diversity of our audience.
- The history of the Women’s Library
Originating in the 1866 Women's Suffrage Committee, the...
- The history of the Women’s Library
- The Women’s Liberation Movement of The 1970s
- Women-Only Consciousness-Raising Groups Emerged
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Saturday 6 March 1971 saw the first national demonstration of the newly-formed Women’s Liberation Movement in the UK. In the previous March, women had met at the first women’s liberation conference at Ruskin College in Oxford. They discussed the many challenges they faced. By March 1971, the women had four demands, three more demands were added sub...
The Women’s Liberation Movement was a grassroots movement. After the 1971 march, hundreds of women-only consciousness-raising groups emerged. They meet regularly around the UK during the 1970s and into the 1980s. The Women’s Library holds many of the newsletters produced by these different groups egNottingham Women’s Liberation newsletter. Many cam...
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 ...
The Women's Library is England's main library and museum resource on women and the women's movement, concentrating on Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Jun 15, 2016 · In founding a library, the Society wanted to preserve the history of the women’s movement in which it had played an important part and also to provide an up-to-date collection of books and reports for the newly-enfranchised women who wanted to play a part in public life.
Mar 16, 2023 · Originating in the 1866 Women's Suffrage Committee, the Women's Library opened in 1926 and has been housed at LSE since 2013. Gillian Murphy shares its story.
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 Francesca Bonnemaison.
