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...]
Update on FAN reopening
We will not be reopening in October, as we previously hoped, but we now hope to be back in January 2022. In the meantime, you can still view our archive materials in the Special Collections reading room - details at https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1504/using_collections/78/plan_a_visit … [Read more...]
The Feminist Revolution: the Struggle for Women’s Liberation
Buy this book. Published in 2018, it has summaries of WLM activism, from Miss America to Greenham Common. Above all, it is full of pictures of posters, badges, and placards you will remember and want to keep. Many of them are from our sister archive, Feminist Archive South, where one author was a trustee, and many of the others are international. We recommend this book. The … [Read more...]
Were you a feminist activist in West Yorkshire in the 1970s or 1980s?
Were you a feminist activist in West Yorkshire in the 1970s or 1980s? An MA student at Columbia University would like to interview women (by zoom or phone) about why they became involved in the feminist movement and the different theories of women’s oppression, disagreements, and factions that emerged as the movement developed. She is particularly interested in women who … [Read more...]
Access reopened to FAN collections
Because of major building works, Feminist Archive North will not reopen until October or November 2021. However, the Special Collections reading room is now open again on a limited basis, so it is possible to view our collections. There are four researcher desks available, Tuesday to Thursday, 10am-1pm and 2pm-4pm. Booking has to be made online, at least five days in … [Read more...]