FAN on MyLearning

FAN takes you on a Learning Journey!

Volunteers from FAN have contributed a new section to the My Learning partnership. My Learning is a Yorkshire-based effort to place some of the richness of our museums, archives and libraries on the internet for teachers to use as supplementary materials in lessons. You can start our journey, Feminist Activism – Education & Job Opportunities, by clicking here.

Lesbians are Everywhere! 300 years of Lesbian History

To coincide with York Lesbian Arts Festival: York City Archives, the Feminist Archive North and the Northern Older Lesbian Network are hosting an exciting women-only exhibition of original material brought together for the first time to document Lesbian lives in the North of England and beyond.

‘Lesbians are Everywhere!’ brings together unique and rarely seen images that reveal this hidden history for women today. Find out about the secrets of lesbian life in York through the ages; famous
lesbians in history; and the story of lesbian activism from 1969 to today.

Sunday 26th Oct, 10am – 2pm.
York City Archives
Exhibition Square
York  YO1 7EW
Tel. 01904 551 878

York City Archives are in Exhibition Square, five minutes’ from York Minster, next to Bootham Bar, the northern gateway on the city walls. We are about 10 minutes walk from York Railway Station.

Cars can drop off disabled visitors at the main entrance to the Archives. The nearest car park is on Marygate, which is five minutes’ walk and has 350 spaces. Marygate is off Bootham, the A19, which is the main road into York from the north. For more car parking information go to www.yorktraffic.info

There is a ramp to the front entrance with a handrail.  There is one disabled toilet with baby changing facilities on the ground floor of the Art Gallery next door.

Reclaim the Night – Saturday 22nd November, 2008

Plans are already underway for this year’s Reclaim the Night March in London. Marking 5 years since the revival of the March (originally a response to the government urging women to stay at home while the Yorkshire Ripper was at large) this year’s event will be organised by the London Feminist Network and promises to be the largest yet.

Check out the Reclaim the Night website for more detailed information.

Summer 2008 Newsletter hot off the press

Treasures from the archive include
great photographs from
Greenwich Common and Menwith Hill.

newsletter-no3-summer-08

FAN badges for sale

FAN badges are here in all their purple, white and green goodness. They are 1 inch or 2.5 centimetres in diameter and are a fantastic way to show your support and to publicise the archive.Suggested minimum donation is 50p, with all proceeds going to keep your favourite treasure trove of feminist history up and running. To buy one, email us at fa_north@yahoo.co.uk

Vera Douie Fellowship at The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University

The Vera Douie fellowship is a visiting fellowship for original research in The Women’s Library Collections. The fellow also contributes to The Women’s Library public programme as an outcome of their research, for example, in the form of a lecture, display, seminar, or workshop.

The fellowship is £4,500 for a minimum of two months and does not include travel or accommodation costs. The fellow will have use of a carrel at The Women’s Library.

Applications are welcomed for research into newly catalogued collections <http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/londonmet/index.cfm?6554C5B2-BE70-F211-9BE5-EDDF327D7836>  as well as other areas of The Women’s Library’s collections <http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/londonmet/index.cfm?41C66ED6-0121-2904-7118-B938B736E077> . The Library and Archive Catalogues can be searched online <http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/londonmet/index.cfm?4553520D-CF66-ED67-4A0E-4D0F2C1C8453> .

The private donor of the fellowships has requested that applications from women over 35 should be given priority.

The fellowships are anyone currently not employed full time by a HE Institution. It is not necessary to have a postgraduate degree. The fellowship will be awarded at the end of 2008 to commence in January 2009.

The fellowship is in conjunction with London Metropolitan University’s Gender Interest Group <http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/londonmet/index.cfm?65850489-DED2-49C8-805E-E92B027D6E0F> .

How to Apply

1. Write a proposal of 500 words giving details of the research you want to undertake and what kind of contribution to the public programme (e.g. public event, display, seminar, workshop) might result and who it is aimed at
2. Enclose your CV
3. Give the names of two referees

Please send your applications to Catherine Norman, Audience Development Assistant, The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT
or email to: c.norman@londonmet.ac.uk.

The closing date is 30 September 2008.

Exhibition at University of Leeds libraries

Feminist Archive North has produced a display about our work and our holdings, which is currently on display at the Edward Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The exhibition is on until the 24th May 2008.

Prior to this, it was up at the entrance to the Brotherton Library for two weeks. The exhibition includes a monitor displaying screenshots from our website.

Hope you can get down to see the exhibition at the Edward Boyle Library!

International Women’s Day Events

FEMINIST ARCHIVE NORTH

Thursday 6 March, Leeds Social Sciences Institute, Beech Grove House (opposite the Students Union), University of Leeds, 6.00 pm – 8.00 pm.

After three previous successful events, we will mark IWD 2008 with an event dedicated to sustaining campaigns on violence against women.

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BOLTON WOMEN’S LIBERATION GROUP (1971-1986)
March 8th 2008

Bolton Women’s Liberation (History) Group will hold a One Day Conference on International Women’s Day, March 8th 2008 at The Friends’ Meeting House in Bolton Town Centre. The day will include performances, speakers and workshops. Some of the original documents from the archive of Bolton Women’s Liberation Group will be on show. We hope that delegates will celebrate feminism past and present – that people will be informed and inspired.

Booking forms for the Conference are available now from the Conference Administrator, 1 Bow Lane, Leyland PR24 4YA Telephone 0161 498 5620

Website address: www.bolton-womens-liberation.org

‘Be a Bloody Train Driver’: Humour and Feminism

The Feminist Archive North celebrates International Women’s Day

We are organising a special evening event to celebrate International Women’s Day 2007, focusing on an often neglected area of recent women’s history, the use of humour.

The event will include:  

Jacky Fleming, award winning cartoonist and Guardian contributor, will appear in conversation. 

A short film by Jan Wells with Vera Media, ‘Get It Off Your Chest’ celebrating something very close to every woman’s heart. “…Very uplifting.”  

Funny Girl or Moaning Minnie? Humour in the Women’s Liberation Movement: An exhibition of material from the Archive. 

Updates on FAN projects: FAN has recently received Heritage Lottery Funding enabling us to employ a professional archivist, set up a website and develop outreach and access projects. The event will include reports of exciting developments in these areas, and calls for volunteers to help in the archive as well as for donations of women’s liberation movement material. 

Friday 9^th March 2007

6 pm for 6 30 pm – 8 pm.

Conference Hall, Leeds University Student Union (Lift access)    

Entry Free 

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