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Major accessions to repositories in 2022 relating to Women's History |
Local
- Cury Womens Institute: minutes, monthly and committee meetings, project records c1956-20010 (WI/CUR)
- Mary Wilmot Arundel Coode (nee Daubuz) of Killiow, Truro: diaries with photographs 19th cent (AD3105)
- Mrs Annie Pool (nee Ellis, 1871-1949): manuscript notes, plans, photographs, published pamphlets and collected research materials rel to Cornwall c1890-1949 (AD3120)
- Rowe family of Cornwall: diary and scrapbook, Winnifred Bertha Curtis, St Dennis, Cheltenham College (1946-47); photograph album, Mrs Marta Rowe, new water supply, Tallack's Creek, Narabo, Feock (1996); plans, corresp and photograph album, Mrs Marta Rowe, culvert replacement, Tallack's Creek, Narabo Vale, Feock (2006-2007) 1946-2007 (AD3106)
- Florence Mabel May (fl1899-1975), of Truro: memoir (written 1965-1975) recollecting memories, covering 1904-1919, with additional family photographs 1899-1990 (AD3088)
- Doris Dewar (fl1938-2012), teacher for The Women's League of Health: teaching records rel to the league c1938-2012 (D/EX2892acc10956)
- Lady Mayoress Ellen Merlin Gardner (fl1894-1937): compiled scrapbook of newspaper cuttings primarily rel to her husband Charles Edward Ley Gardner's mayoralty 1901-1902 1894-1937 (46680)
- Llanarth Women's Institute: minutes 1917-2010 (D/WI/LAR)
- Mary Cicely Fair, (1874-1955), archaeologist and naturalist: photograph album of Copeland area with scenes of the western lakes and fells as well as oak spelk basketmaking in Eskdale; Herdwicks Woolpack Show and a few steelworks, pits and docks 1935 (PH/1677)
- Belper Inner Wheel Club: minutes (1946-1988), Knitting Club minutes (1945-1946) 1945-1988 (D8464)
- Buxton Women's Institute: Covid 19 pandemic lockdown album 2020 (D8465)
- High Peak Borough Council: condolence Book and memorial cards for Queen Elizabeth II 2022 (D6887)
- Church Gresley Church of England School: photo album compiled by Angela Maureen Smith (nee Hursthouse) 1949-1954 (D8420)
- Scout Association: Matlock 15th Group: photographs, newsletter & press cuttings collected by Angela Maureen Smith (nee Hursthouse) 1949-2002 (D8420)
- Jessie Elizabeth Orwin, (1888-1981), school teacher & former student, Derby [Teacher] Training College: class photographs [Derby Teacher Training College], prayer book, postcards 1907-1909 (D8446)
- Matlock Moor Ladies Group: minute books, account books, annual list of members (1979-1995), notebooks with information about activities, members, trips, etc (1983-1995) 1964-1995 (D8404)
- National British Women's Total Abstinence Union, Staveley Branch: minutes 1935-1989 (D3576)
- Closeburn Scottish Women's Institute: records rel to events, activities and management nd (1535)
- Gwyneth White of Penarth: personal papers incl diaries, material rel to family, interests, groups and organisations, with material rel to Lundy and Flat Holm 20th cent (D1824)
- Pamela Rosemary Hill of Cardiff: personal and professional papers incl rel to Standing Conference of Women's Organizations , Cardiff Business and Professional Women's Club papers, records of education, programmes of concerts and events attended through course of work 20th cent (D1902)
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: South Wales Branch: minutes, business papers, photographs, tapes of interviews with members, exhibition boards illustrating branch activities 1982-2009 (DWAW3)
- Abergavenny Women's Peace Movement and Gwent Greenham Common Support Group: file of papers incl timeline of Abergavenny Women's Peace Group, report on peace camp and history of Group c1980-2017 (D6663)
- Women's Guild, St Columba High, Inverness: records incl minutes, attendance register, list of senior members 1964-2006 (GB232/CH3/1655)
- Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), Syston: group photograph of personnel c1943-1945 (DE10352)
- Collegiate School for Girls, Leicester: photograph albums, panoramic photographs, photographs and programmes, school magazines, prints by art ,teacher, exam papers (1955-1962) c1930-1979 (DE10507)
- Court Of Common Pleas: deed relating to Jane, wife of John Groocock, regarding certificate for taking the acknowledgments of deeds by married women (certificate annexed) concerning property in Wellington Street, Leicester 1846 (DE10300)
- Esma Green (neé Garfield), (1921-2015), Little Bowden: letters, photographs and papers c1880-2015 (DE10332)
- Olwen Hughes, (fl1980-2018), art collector: collection of drawings, sketches & watercolours of Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland 1980-2018 (DE9999)
- Peggy E Ingham (later Keeling), (fl1930-1980), dancer and teacher: certificates, programmes, correspondence, sheet music for shows and exams c1930-1980 (DE10466)
- Books of Condolences on the death of HM Queen Elizabeth II collected by Leicestershire and Leicester organisations 2022 (DE10472)
- Sheila H Marriott, (dc2022), family history researcher: research files and exhibitions relating to Barkestone Le Vale, Leicestershire and its people includes transcript of Sathern Constable's accounts (1630-1649) and Stathern's hearth tax returns c1630-2022 (DE10409)
- Kathleen O'Donoghue (fl1971-2000), diarist, Leicester: diaries 1971-2000 (DE10434)
- Ryhall Women's Institute (formerly Ryhall & Essendine Women's Institute): minutes, Jubilee scrapbook (1965) 1941-2011 (DE10459)
- Mary Royce (1846-1992), doctor and founder of the Royce Institute, Leicester: personal papers and records relating to The Royce Institute, Leicester including research notes, biographical information and programmes of the Institute 1888-2014 (DE10294)
- Pankhurst Centre: records incl meeting papers, annual reports, financial records, restoration papers, fundraising information, visitor books, newspaper cuttings and photographs 1979-2016 (M875)
- Unknown letter writer, Canons Ashby: letter written on behalf of Lady Elizabeth Dryden relating to groceries, 21 July 1834 1834 (D(CA)/1124)
- Mrs W [Mary?] Montague, of Thrapston: correspondence to Miss Jane Salmon at Salmon's Ladies Seminary, Tattershall, Lincolnshire relating to the education of Eliza Westlake, described as a 'little orphan child' 1829-1847 (N448)
- Bulwell parish: book of condolence for Queen Elizabeth II 2022 (10247)
- Cantamus Girls Choir, Mansfield: scrapbooks and photo albums 20th-21st cent (10145)
- Central Midwives Board, Nottinghamshire area: registers of cases
[RESTRICTED ACCESS] 1965-1972 (10104)
- Gunthorpe parish: book of condolence for Queen Elizabeth II 2022 (10285)
- Helen Kirkpatrick Watts, (1881-1972), suffragette: scrapbook containing photographs, news cuttings, pamphlets, and other documents relating to her involvement in the suffragette movement and in later life 19th-20th cent (10180)
- Miriam Jackson (fl2022), author: booklet about Helena Brownsword Dowson, suffragette of Nottingham 2022 (10135)
- Joan Marjorie Wallace (fl1970-2021), author: manuscripts of short stories, plays and playlets c1970-2021 (10210)
- Lowdham parish: book of condolence for Queen Elizabeth II 2022 (10284)
- Highfields Independent School and Day Nursery, Newark: book of condolence for Queen Elizabeth II 2022 (10280)
- Nottingham Methodist Women's Luncheon Club: minutes, accounts and programmes 1989-2019 (10283)
- Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), suffragette and political activist: letter to F W Warren 1908 (Acc. No. 5684)
- Ellen Chalmers (fl1940-1950), of Admiralty House, Devonport: letters to her parents in Scotland, while working as a chambermaid at Admiralty House, during the Second World War; a letter of recommendation upon her joining the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, and a copy of a photograph of Ellen taken c1950 when she worked for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines at Prestwick Airport c1940-1950 (4402)
- Leaver and Mead families of Swansea: family papers incl diaries of Florence M Leaver, 1887-1901; corresp between Iris E Mead and Tom Crocker, 1943-1945; scrapbook belonging to Peggy Mead containing newspaper cuttings rel to parliament, 1937-1952 1887-1952 (D/D Z 1134/1-8)
- Upper Killay Women's Institute: minutes of group, monthly and committee meetings and annual report and year book for Pen-y-fro Group 1968-2016 (D/D WI/PF 1-4)
- Singleton and East Dean Womens Institute: illustrated lists of names of the founding and original members 1915 (20132)
- Berwick St John Women's Institute: branch minutes 1927-1957 (3419B)
- Amesbury Evening Women's Institute: scrapbooks 1971-2019 (2872C)
- Broughton Gifford Women's Institute: accounts 2008-2020 (4257)
- Corsham Townswomen Guild: minutes 1956-1991 (3889)
- Deverill Valley Women's Institute: accounts 1920-1983 (4110)
- Liden Women's Institute: minutes 1996-2022 (3863)
- Winturwell Women's Institute: minutes 1926-2019 (464A)
- Calne Women's Institute: committee minutes 1983-2017 (3818C)
- Steeple Ashton Women's Institute: photographs, programme cards, newspaper cuttings, and the typed reminiscences of Herbert George Gunstone 1975-2018 (1403)
- Wirral Ladies Investment Club: minutes and accounts 1958-2022 (2514)
National
- Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil (1938-2022), Australian publisher, writer and critic: Angela Carter archive 1973-2007 (Add MS 89490)
- Constance B J. Marsden (fl 1908-1940), photographer and campaigner for women's suffrage: autograph album 1908-1913 (Add MS 89506)
- Marion Wallace-Dunlop (1864-1942), artist, author and suffragette: letters 1909 (Add MS 89507)
- Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst (1880-1958), suffragette; Elsie Edith Bowerman (1889-1973), suffragette and lawyer: letters from The Women's Social and Political Union, incl to Sir William James Bull, 1st Baronet (1863-1931), solicitor and politician, and Dame Ethel Mary Smyth (1858-1944), composer, writer and suffragist 1908-1915 (Add MS 89505)
- Mrs Edie Hotton (fl1945-1970): corresp addressed to Mrs Hotton mostly rel to her St Martin's Guest House business, and news from friends and relatives following the Liberation of Guernsey in May 1945 1945-1971 (AQ 1702/01 to AQ 1702/41)
- Madeleine Louise Norman (1899-1978), nurse: autograph books (2) rel to patients at the King George Hospital, South East London, signed and illustrated by patients at the hospital c1915-1919 (JA/3878)
- Photographs (7) rel to Joan Bradford, Auxilliary Territorial Service, showing ATS women at the Experimental Gunnery Establishment at Shoeburyness during the Second World War 1939-1945 (NAM. 2022-04-2-1)
- Letters of various Scottish women, possibly collected by Major Duncan Grant Warrand (1877-1946), Seaforth Highlanders 1686-1837 (Acc.14321)
- Lilian Adam Smith, née Buchanan (1866-1949), wife of Sir George Adam Smith: diary of Lilian Buchanan with related notes and corresp 1889-1931 (Acc.14375)
- Eva Crane (1912-2007), researcher and writer on beekeeping: records of bee boles, consisting of numbered files including reports, photographs, corresp and related papers for sites recorded in the UK and Ireland, together with an additional box containing slides, compiled by Crane and others 1950-2000 (Eva Crane Trust Bee Boles Register Archive)
- Mary Silyn Roberts, of the Workers Education Authority: papers rel to work of Mary Silyn Roberts and R. Silyn Roberts in the WEA North Wales, incl corresp with R. Williams Parry, Ben Bowen Thomas (Coleg Harlech) and Eirene White, an article in memory of Mrs Price White Bangor, and R. Silyn Roberts' visit to Russia in 1930 1925-1975 (Mary Silyn Roberts (Women’s Archive of Wales))
- Ruth Bidgood, (1922-2022) poet and historian: research and literary papers 20th-21st cent (Ruth Bidgood Papers)
- Legion of Mary, Mater Dei Hostel, for unmarried mothers, Belfast: minutes, day books, financial ledgers and admission and discharge books c1942-2001 (D4855)
Special
- Wages For Housework Campaign: papers and campaign materials 1971-2022 (WFH)
- Diane Langford (b1941), activist and campaigner: papers 1953-2022 (LANGFORD)
- Gill Kent (fl1979-1985), activist and reproductive rights campaigner: papers and writings 1974-1985 (KENT)
- Mary Bertenshaw, (b 1904), author: mss autobiography, letters, cuttings and photographs c1980-1999 (Acc. 186)
- Women's Engineering Society (WES): records rel to WES Oral History Interviews, incl IET Archives Deposit agreement forms, general information on participants, and WES Centenary Trail Project Recording Agreement forms for interviewees 2019-2021 (UK0108 NAEST 092/20)
- Mary Slee (fl1966-1974), midwife: midwifery case registers 1966-1974 (RCM/2022/7)
- E.E. Carden (fl1945-1946), midwife: midwifery case registers 1945-1946 (RCM/2022/1)
- Alfreda Thomas (nee Parker) (fl1942-1960), midwife: case register, certificates, exam papers, photographs and notes 1942-1960 (RCM/2022/8)
- A.R. van Woerden (fl1965-1986), midwife: midwifery case registers 1965-1986 (RCM/2022/2)
University
- Edinburgh University Women's Club Badminton Club: trophies, minutes, reports, correspondence, and pamphlets 1929-2009 (EUA GD6 (accession number: SC-Acc-2022-0070))
- Louise Jopling (1843-1933), painter: accounts and lists, corresp, photographs, photo albums, press cuttings 19th-20th cent (GLAASC ACCN 00116)
- Mary Lawrenson (1850-1943), activist, educationalist and co-founder of the Co-operative Women's Guild: letters and notes 20th cent (U DP221)
- Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp: documents and journals rel to the Greenham Common protests and lesbian rights 1980-2000 (SPCOLL/2022/65)
- University of Leicester: Rose Griffiths, Professor of Education: oral history interview relating to career in children's non-fiction (maths resources and texts books) during the late 20th century c1980-2000 (Acc 2022/21 (D))
- Sue Townsend (1946-2014), author and playwright: draft ms, AV material and correspondence rel to "Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years" (c2006); correspondence with John Tydeman (1936-2020), Head of BBC Radio Drama (c1982-2017) c1982-2017 (Acc 2022/15, Acc 2022/22)
- Florence Alice Ellis (fl1915-1918), volunteer nurse, First World War: autograph book incl drawings and signatures of family, friends and servicemen at the North Evington War Hospital and the booklet 'Words from the Wounded', edited by Vicki Burke in 2022 c1915-2022 (Acc 2022/8)
- Jean Humphreys (1924-2019), teacher and supporter of Leicester University: papers incl diaries (c1950-1957, 1980-1989 and 2010-2019); photographs; University of Leicester publications, correspondence and research notes c1950-2019 (Acc 2022/12)
- Emily Wilding Davison (1872-1913), suffragist: collection incl letters (4), programme for her funeral service and postcard 1912-1913 (SC/19)
- First 100 Years, a history project charting the journey of women in law since 1919: video interviews and transcripts from the project 2019 (UKLSE-AS1FH01)
- Women's Resource Centre: video and audio recordings of interviews (16), with transcripts, done as part of the 'Sisters Doing if for Themselves' project to mark the 50th anniversary of Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) 2020 (UKLSE-AS1SD01)
- Greenham Women Everywhere: audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with women of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp 2020-2021 (UKLSE-AS1GW01)
- Joan Charnley, (1928-2016), textile designer, educator and botanical artist: papers incl textiles, artwork, diaries, lecture notes, and 35mm slides 1948-2014 (CHA)
- Dinah Mary Joyce Holt (1926-2017), midwife and nurse: lecture notes, , case books and case registers, journals, brochures and correspondence 1943-1973 (MS 1047)
- Jean Hutchinson, Greenham Common activist: papers incl newspaper clippings and legal documents c1980-1989 (2022/20)
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