History Day

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Feminist Library: Making Herstories in an Isolated World
We will be in this year’s online History Day, on Thursday 19 November!

The Feminist Library is a large archive collection of feminist literature, particularly Women’s Liberation Movement materials dating from the late 1960s to the 1990s. Over the past 45 years, the Feminist Library has collected tens of thousands of items in its collection – books, periodicals, archives, ephemera and art work.

The Library is also an autonomous feminist community space. It supports research, activist and community projects in this field. We work closely with many community, activist and creative organisations, providing space for thing like talks, book launches, workshops, life drawing classes, yoga.

Volunteer-run, the Feminist Library aims to preserve women’s/feminist history, which in our wider society is still too often in a precarious situation – it is the only autonomous organisation of its kind in London. Our mission is to save and preserve women’s history for future generations of feminists.
Below, you can browse some of the things the Library has been doing this past year. You can also see what kept us busy and connected to sisters all over the world throughout lockdown (and beyond).

 

WE ARE HERE: How Black Women have been the backbone to radical social movements
For Black History Month, we put together an exhibition of highlights from Black Women’s history in the Feminist Library’s collections that covers many campaigns, groups, and organisations. This rich collection of materials included posters, badges, flyers, archives, periodicals spanning some five decades of the feminist movement’s history. The exhibition was on-site for the month of October, but continues to be online (you can visit it here).

Alongside the exhibition of materials, we had reading recommendations, a podcast and a talk between Stella Dadzie and Lola Olufemi.