• mylearning_org: Which treasured posession did Samuel Pepys bury during the great fire of London? You'll never guess! http://t.co/YoBLK6FO
  Tue,  15 May 2012
• mylearning_org: Howard Carter, finder of Tutankhamun's tomb remembered in today's GoogleDoodle - what kind of treasures did he find? http://t.co/yyaEtOMm
  Wed,  09 May 2012

Feminist Archive North

The Feminist Archive North (FAN) is a fantastically rich and varied resource of material relating to the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) from 1969 to the present. Topics include equality of opportunity in education and employment, the women’s peace movement, women’s studies, women and development, and violence against women. The collection is available to be used by all those interested in the struggles and achievements of feminists. The archive is housed in Special Collections, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds where it can be accessed by arrangement. Some of the archives’ resources are available on our website. Our staff resources are limited as FAN is run entirely by volunteers, but we can often arrange outside speakers. Many of us were actively involved in the campaigns and struggles explored in our Learning Journeys.

International Women's Day (8th March) annual themed events.

Exhibitions and Roadshows by invitation.

FAN includes personal and organisational papers, conference papers, dissertations, books, and complete runs of important WLM journals such as Spare Rib, Shrew, Women’s Report, Scarlet Woman, Shifra and Women’s Voice. There are also leaflets, video and audio tapes, posters and other ephemera - a wealth of contemporary material, much of which is unique to this collection.

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