Feminist Libraries & Archives Summer 2019 Newsletter

Feminist & Women's Libraries & Archives Network Summer 2019 Newsletter

FLA Network manifesto:

To improve communication between our libraries and archives and to develop and strengthen connections and networks.
To provide a platform for feminist and women’s libraries and archives and to highlight their importance.
To promote feminist and women’s libraries and archives to a wider audience.
To support each other in various aspects of running feminist and women’s libraries and archives and to share knowledge and expertise.
To ensure the continuity of feminist and women’s libraries and archives.
To create and maintain links between feminist and women’s libraries and archives, other women-friendly archiving projects which chronicle the heritage of progressive social movements and the wider feminist activist community.

Events

Until 28th July
The Feminist Library is contributing to an exhibition at the Thames-Side Gallery.
Their mobile van Library is going to be there weekend of 27-28th July - don't miss!

Until 3rd August
Glasgow Women's Library is hosting an 'ambitious' exhibition - including installations, sculptures and sound works - exploring notions of home.

Until 8th September
LSE's Women's Library is holding The Sacred Year of 1919: women and the professions summer exhibition, accompanied by a series of talks.

6-7th September
Women's History Network Conference will be hosted at the LSE, London.

5-6th October
The Women's Archive Wales will be holding its annual conference in partnership with St Fagans National Museum of History, with 24 speakers already confirmed.

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News

London

Black Feminist Bookshop in collaboration with Housmans are hosting Black Feminism Week, which is now sold out, but to find out more about more future events like it, you can get in touch with them here.

The Feminist Library is still in process of finalising its plans for the big move to Peckham - sign up for their newsletter here to find out all the latest news about move dates and more as soon as they're announced!

Vagina Museum announces it will press on with the planned opening date despite not reaching its full crowdfunding target, and is recruiting a curator. Find out more on their blog, or sign up to their newsletter on their website.

Glasgow

Glasgow Women's Library is recruiting 'women's history detectives'! Sounds fun? Find out more on their website's news pages!

For more news and links to all our members' pages visit our directory.

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