50 Years of Activism: the Women's Aid Federation England Wednesday 9 March, 1-2pm Join the team working with the Women’s Aid Federation of England (WAFE) archive as they talk about the project to make this significant collection fully accessible. This free talk will provide a glimpse into the story of WAFE, introducing you to the archive and highlighting its potential for … [Read more...]
FAN is back!
After nearly two long years, we're finally back in our office. As before, we are only here on Thursdays, but things are still not quite back to normal: we can only have four people at a time in the office, which means we are working at about 50% capacity, and no external visitors are allowed. On top of this, we still don't have access to our archived collections, although we … [Read more...]
Daring to Hope; My Life in the 1970s: A personal history of life, love and women’s liberation by Sheila Rowbotham
Sheila Rowbotham is joined by Sue O'Sullivan at the online launch of Sheila's memoir, Daring to Hope. Sheila looks back at her life as a participant in the women’s liberation movement, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. She reveals the tremendous efforts that were made to transform attitudes and feelings, as … [Read more...]
Women’s Aid Federation England Archive: Documenting 50 years of activism
One of the most recent collections acquired by the University of Leeds Special Collections is the Women’s Aid Federation England (WAFE) Archive. FAN played a part in bringing the collection to the university and we are advising the archive team during the project. This is an incredibly exciting collection, documenting the charity’s approaches to tackling domestic abuse from … [Read more...]
Embrace the Base 40th anniversary
Embrace The Base took place on the 12th December 1982, when 30,000 women held hands around the 8 mile perimetre fence of RAF Greenham Common, to protest the global nuclear order, the British state and the patriarchy. Academic Catherine Eschle and Artist Alice Tatton Brown will co-host this online feminist lunchtime gathering to consider collectively how we might mark the … [Read more...]