Filia has some funding to digitise the recordings which were made at the Women Overcoming Violence and Abuse (WOVA) international conference which took place on 10-15 November 1996 in Brighton. They are keen to be in touch with anyone who was a speaker, or who was involved in organising the conference, or who attended it. Please get in touch with marie@filia.org.uk … [Read more...]

The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester and the People's History Museum (PHM) are offering a fully-funded PhD opportunity, ‘Total Liberation’: Feminism, Socialism and Red Rag (1972-1980), starting 1 October and running for 3.5 years. ‘We are in no mood’, stated the first editorial of British feminist-socialist periodical Red Rag: a Magazine … [Read more...]

As a result of the UK leaving the European Union, the online facility to search Spare Rib on the British Library website is no longer available. The copyright status of the digitised magazine relied on the EU Orphan Works directive, which now no longer applies. While this is a disappointment to anyone researching the UK women's movement, the British Library Spare Rib website … [Read more...]

Special Collections is now open to researchers on a limited basis. There are four researcher desks available, Monday to Thursday, 10am-1pm and 2pm-4pm. Booking has to be made online, at least five days in advance. You'll find information on how to do this is at https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1504/using_collections/78/plan_a_visit/2 You can search the FAN collections at … [Read more...]

We have been informed by Leeds University that the earliest date FAN could reopen is January 2021, and it is likely to be later than that. We are sorry that we continue to be unable to assist researchers and others wishing to see our collections. We are now monitoring our email account, so if you want to get in touch with FAN, please email us at fa_north@yahoo.co.uk … [Read more...]