To Make that Future Now: The Women’s Library & the TUC Library
By Angela V. John It all looked so promising a decade ago. In early 2002 a wonderful new building was opened in Old Castle Street, East London. It was a carefully chosen site. Here had stood (since...
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Amid growing concern about the future of the Women’s Library at London Metropolitan University (highlighted on this website recently by Angela V. John), Gemma Romain – last year’s Vera Douie Fellow at...
View ArticleArchives: A House on Fire?
This time last year, I published a small piece on archives in History Workshop Journal 72’s feature, ‘Coalition Cuts’. Ironically – though at this point I’m not focussing on the dispiriting history of...
View ArticleThe Women’s Library: Not Saved Yet
By Laura Schwartz In March 2012 London Metropolitan University announced its plans to divest custodianship of The Women’s Library, inviting bids from other institutions and threatening to ‘mothball’...
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