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Key class numbers and search terms
Key references, latest academic works and acquisitions
Periodicals
Press cuttings and ephemera
Zines and artist books
Electronic resources
Archives
Museum
Identifying images
Web Archive
Further information
The Women's Library, founded in 1926 as the Library of the London Society for Women's Service, exists to document and explore women's lives in Britain in the past, now and in the future. Printed material, ephemera, archives, oral histories and museum objects together form The Women's Library collections. The collections cover a range of topics including women's rights, suffrage, sexuality, health, education, employment, reproductive rights, the family and the home and are the most extensive resource for women's history in the UK.
The collections include a wide range of resources for the study of women and peace. In addition to contemporary books, pamphlets and periodicals on women's peace movements, campaigns, peace conferences and individual pacifists the Library also holds 19th century materials concerning women's commitment to peace. The Library holds press cuttings and ephemera relating to women's peace camps and archives of organisations and individuals campaigning for peace. A range of electronic resources available in the Library provide access to material on peace studies.
Key class numbers and search terms
The printed collections of The Women's Library are arranged in the Dewey Decimal Classification and listed on London Metropolitan University's online catalogue, available in the Reading Room and via the website Key class numbers and search terms for peace include:
Key referencs, latest academic works and acquisitions
The Library holds the following guides and bibliographies, useful for identifying further information and material on the subject:
Decade for women information resources for 1985. 1, A partially annotated bibliography of documentation related to the World Conference to Review and Appraise the United National Decade for Women, Nairobi, Kenya July 15-26 1985. New York : International Women's Tribune Centre, 1984. Vault OS P 016.30542
Decade for women information resources for 1985. 3, Special issues of periodicals.New York : International Women's Tribune Centre, 1984. Vault OS P 016.3054205
Kramarae, Cheris and Spender, Dale (eds) Routledge international encyclopedia of women : global women's issues and knowledge New York ; London : Routledge, 2000. Reading Room Quick Ref 305.403 ROU
Oldfield, Sybil. London, Continuum, 2001. Reading Room Quick Ref 362.92241 OLD.Women humanitarians : a biographical dictionary of British women active between 1900 and 1950 : 'doers of the world.' Reading Room Quick Ref 362.92241 OLD
The Women's Library's recently published and newly available acquisitions
Periodicals
The Library holds a wide range of periodicals on women, including academic titles, popular magazines and campaigning newsletters. Some relevant periodical titles on women and peace are Greenham newsletter, Peace and freedom news : journal of the British Section of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sellafield Women's Peace Camp newsletter, Women for a nuclear free and independent Pacific newsletter and WoMenwith Hill : Women's Peace Camp newsletter. Further periodical titles on the subject can be identified through the online catalogue.
For further guidance on identifying periodicals click here.
Press cuttings and ephemera
The presscuttings collections cover the whole of the 20th century and are particularly valuable for identifying contemporary comment where retrospective online newspaper coverage is unavailable. The Library holds microfilmed cuttings, up to 1979, on peace. On reel 2 see human rights at 172.1, the peace movement at 172.4 and peace and international relations at 172.4.396 and on reel 37 international defence at 355.357. In addition there are scrapbooks relating to Greenham Common Peace Camp held in the archives.
The Library's ephemera collection contains information relating to women's organisations, including leaflets, flyers, minutes of meetings, agendas and all kinds of campaign literature. It includes ephemera for for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, International Women's Day For Disarmament, Sylvia Pankhurst, Vera Brittain, Greenham Common and Sellafield Women's Peace Camps.
Zines and artist books
The Library's collections currently include more than 350 zines and 27 artist books.
Electronic resources
Electronic resources (online journals and databases) are currently only available to London Metropolitan University staff and students, and can be accessed via the online catalogue with their institutional identification and password. London Metropolitan Academic Liaison Librarians have provided a list of relevant e-resources.
Archives
A brief guide to the archives is available on The Women's Library's website. Further details of archive collections available for research can be found in the archive and museum catalogue or in the hard copy catalogues in the Reading Room on the shelves adjacent to the Information Desk. The following archives, including records of organisations, societies, campaigns, personal papers and letters relate to peace:
2IAW International Alliance of Women
5GCC Greenham Common Collection
5GCW Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
5WIB Records of Women in Black
7AMR Papers of Agnes Maude Roydon, 1876-1956, later Shaw, preacher and feminist
7CFD Papers of Charlotte Despard, 1844-1939, nee French, suffragist and communist
7CTH/1 Papers of Catherine Thackeray
7DDO Papers of Daisy Dobson
7JAN Papers of Jayne and Juliet Nelson
7JTR Papers of Jill Truman
7KDC Papers of Kathleen d'Olier Courtney, 1878-1974, internationalist and feminist
7MPR Papers of Millie Price
7MSH Papers of Mary Sheepshank
7PBB Papers of Pam Baum Baker
7RPI Papers of Dr Rachel Pinney
7RSJ Papers of Ruth Jones (nee Slate)
9/11 Autograph letter collection: Letters related to William Thomas Stead
9/19 Autograph letter collection: Keir Hardie, the Webbs, and Ramsey MacDonald
Museum
The museum collection comprises postcards, photographs, posters, banners and badges. Further details of museum objects available for research can be found in the archive and museum catalogue or in the hard copy catalogues available in the Reading Room on the shelves adjacent to the Enquiry Desk. Specifically the Library holds modern postcards on peace campaigning, including group photographs of organisations and portrait photographs of individuals involved in pacifism. Women's peace campaigning posters and badges concerning Greenham Common, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, WFLOE (Women for Life on Earth), and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament also form part of the collection. Search for terms such as peace, Greenham, and nuclear.
Identifying images
Images can be found throughout The Women's Library's collections. Many digital images are available on Flickr, Vads, the archives catalogue (click on the number in the left hand side) and Mary Evans Picture Library. Use Mary Evans Picture Library's fast service for a non-watermarked high resolution images suitable for publication. If you require an image which has not been digitised you are welcome to use our reprographic service. Normal copyright conditions will apply.
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Web Archive
This collection of web sites about Women's Issues is maintained by the British Library in collaboration with the Women's Library, London Metropolitan University. The collection was established in 2005 and has regularly collected web sites since then. It includes sites of women's organisations and campaigns, research reports, government publications and statistics pertaining to women, personal sites of women, such as blogs, and women focused e-zines.
Further information
The staff of The Women's Library can help you find material relating to your subject area; please don't hesitate to ask. You can contact the Information Desk staff prior to your visit via email twlinfodesk@londonmet.ac.uk, telephone 020 7320 3515, or by asking at the Information Desk in the Reading Room on the day of your visit.
Image references: Woman's part in the League of Nations. London : Mr W.L. Williams, Press and Literature Secretary of the League of Nations Union, [1920]. Pamphlet 341.22 ; Badge 7JAN/6/16 ; Peace pages for the people. London : Peace Society, [n.d.] UDC box 155
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