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The Women's Library

The Women’s Library printed materials collection holds books and pamphlets relating to women in diverse communities across subject areas including feminism, employment, fiction and biography.

You can search the library catalogue online through The Women's Library website for details of individual items.

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African | Caribbean | Cross-cultural

African

The ephemera and periodicals collections contain material on organisations including Southall Black Sisters, Black women's involvement in Greenham Common, and Black Women for Wages for Housework.

Most periodical titles can be found on the Library's online catalogue. Details of the ephemera collection are available in the card catalogue located in the Reading Room.



Caribbean

The ephemera and periodicals collections contain material on organisations including Southall Black Sisters, Black women's involvement in Greenham Common, and Black Women for Wages for Housework.

Most periodical titles can be found on the Library's online catalogue. Details of the ephemera collection are available in the card catalogue located in the Reading Room.



Cross-cultural

Material relating to East End Women – Wakefield Trust Oral History.

In 2002 Kate Melvin was commissioned to carry out an oral history project by The Women’s Library with funding provided by the Wakefield Trust. This project was to collect 30 oral histories of older women who lived in the neighbourhood of the Women's Library i.e. specifically in the electoral wards of Spitalfields and Banglatown, Whitechapel, Weavers and St Katherine's and Wapping. The interviewees were selected to represent the broad ethnic diversity in the area.

Mark Barrow carried out a project copying the interviews to various media which resulted in him depositing 30 compact discs, 21 mini discs and 9 audio cassette tapes.

There are approximately 30 tapes in the collection.



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