A Woman's Place

Identity area

Type of entity

Corporate body

Authorized form of name

A Woman's Place

Parallel form(s) of name

  • AWP
  • AWP Collective

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Description area

Dates of existence

c.1970-c.1986

History

A Woman's Place (AWP) was a feminist collective and women's resource and information centre based at Hungerford House, Victoria Embankment, London WC2. Established around the early 1970s, AWP was a key site of knowledge exchange and connection for women across and beyond the WLM, producing research reports, coordinating events and social gatherings (with childcare provision), and making a range of information services available to women. In the mid 1980s, AWP's upper space was home to the Feminist Library for a short time before the Library moved to its present home in Southwark around 1986.

It is unclear when AWP wound up its operations, but material in CLCBLG/4 seems to indicate that this happened around c.1986.

Places

London

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Institution identifier

GB 1534

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Status

Revised

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Authority record created by Lucy Brownson on 10/09/2021.

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  • English

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