Scrapbooks of press cuttings relating to the Women's Liberation Movement

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 106 10/52
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	: Scrapbooks of press cuttings relating to the Women's Liberation Movement
Date(s)	: 1969-1991
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 5 Albums
Name of creator(s)	: Unknown
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Unknown.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

This collection consists of press cuttings mainly from national newspapers (with some cuttings from regional and international press). The cuttings are arranged in albums in the following sections:

Album 1:

* Women's Liberation in the UK Vol 1: 1971-1973

Album 2:

* Women's Liberation in the UK Vol 2: 1974-1977

Album 3:

* Women's Liberation in the UK Vol 3: 1977-1991

* Women's Liberation Movement - General: 1972-1982

Album 4:

* Women's Liberation Movement - International 1971-1976

* Women's Liberation Book Reviews 1971-1976

Album 5:

* Women's Liberation USA 1969-1984

The albums contain many complete articles. The authors include Katharine Whitehorn, Jill Tweedie, Bel Mooney, Mary Stott, Fiona Baker, Germaine Greer, Anna Coote, Linda Christmas, Lynne Edmunds, Jane Alexander, Ronald Irving, Mary Holland, Brian Harrison, Jacky Gillott, Caroline Moorehead, Beryl McAlhone, Diana Shelley, Polly Toynbee, Arianna Stassinopolous, Tina Brown, Andrea Dworkin.

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:

The Women's Library Catalogue

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from TWL Printed Collections, Jul 2008.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The Women's Library also holds further material relating to the Women's Liberation Movement including the following: periodicals such as Red rag, Shrew: journal of the Women's Liberation Workshop, WIRES, Spare rib; and archives including the papers of Sheila Rowbotham (7SHR), Anna Davin (7ADA), and records of See Red Women's Workshop (5SRW). Other material related to WLM is held at Feminist Archive South: University of Bristol, Feminist Archive North: University of Leeds, and the Glasgow Women's Library.

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:
07/08/2008