Correspondence relating to the Poverty Alliance, both sent to and sent by Cathy McCormack

Papers relating to Cathy McCormack's work in the Poverty Alliance

Poverty Alliance AGM email print out correspondence, Questionnaire and Programme, poverty in Scotland conference itinerary and correspondence, election manifesto summaries, poverty alliance Scottish anti-poverty review booklet, Glasgow’s People: Transcending poverty booklet and conference report, Glasgow Civic conversation report, printed newspaper articles from the Guardian and the Sunday Herald

Photographs and press cuttings, many of which have been commissioned by and/or featured in Outwrite Women’s Newspaper.

Includes images relating to Zimbabwean workers’ struggles (1983), Grenadian liberation from US and UK occupation, Indian women’s protests against gender-based violence and killing of [Nandita Gandhi], GABRIELA Filipina women’s activism, all-women protest against assassination of Benita Aquino in Manila (Oct 1983), demo in Grenada in protest at attempted assassination of Maurice Bishop (1980), LGBT+ protest, and more.

Series contains photographs of Jackie Forster, her friends, colleagues and others throughout her career. Includes professional acting headshots from the BBC, an envelope titled ‘Daytime Dykes 1996, photographs from a 1987 ALGWE Women’s Society meeting, a series of shots from Forster’s visit to Glasgow Women’s Library and photographs from Sappho and other events.

Correspondence relation to financial sponsorship, correspondence with BBC Scotland, shifting the balance project aims and summary, Rome trip itinerary, Scottish Office Community Learning Plans, Greater Easterhouse anti-poverty strategy, correspondence invitations to events

Series includes birth chart and psycho-graphologist analysis, handwritten letter to a ‘most beloved child’ with a photo attached of Forster and her parents, newspaper clippings of Forster’s fathers obituary. Also contains a file of 4 books signed and dedicated to Forster, a notebook and a horoscope birth book.

Personal papers of Cathy McCormack, including unpublished writing, correspondence and magazines

Papers of Mary Lonsdale who was a general secretary of the Scottish Co-operative Women's Guild. Includes; correspondence, books, typed and handwritten notes relating to running of the Guild, conference speeches, photographs

Papers collected by Jessie McKirdy regarding the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. Includes: written accounts by McKirdy, photographs of the camp, newspaper clippings, and instructions for the protest in December, 1982.