Women's Freedom League Sheffield Branch

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 106 2WFS
Held at	: Women's Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/Library/Collections/Collection-highlights/The-Womens-Library ›
Full title	: Women's Freedom League Sheffield Branch
Date(s)	: 1916-1932
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 0.5 A box (1 folder)
Name of creator(s)	: Women's Freedom League | Sheffield Branch
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Sheffield branch of the Women's Freedom League (1908-1919) was founded in Dec 1908, a year after the beginning of the parent body. That, in turn, had been constituted by dissenting members of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). All levels of the overall group classed themselves as a militant organisation, but refused to attack persons or property other than ballot papers, unlike the WSPU. Furthermore, they operated on the basis of party democracy that had been the initial cause of the break from the WSPU. The body continued its activities until the 1918 bill granting women limited franchise. The organisation was wound up in May 1919.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

The archive consists of volume of minutes of the branch, with rough notes of the points made at a Rents Campaign meeting held on the 2 Apr 1932.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

This collection is available for research. Readers are advised to contact The Women's Library in advance of their first visit.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Finding aids:

Fawcett Library Catalogue.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

See also the records of the Women's Freedom League held at the Women's Library (2WFL) and two Scrapbooks of Press Cuttings of the Women's Freedom League (10/27-28)

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Finding aid created by export from CALM v7.2.14 Archives Hub EAD2002. Edited for AIM25 by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
08/01/2008