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London women's resources
GB 1534 CLCBLG/6/24 · File · 1983-1995
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Resources relating to London-based women's groups, including newsletters, reviews, publications.

Includes: London Women’s Network Against Male Violence newsletter (Jul 1988); review of CLCBLG (Sept 1990); ‘Different Lives – Same Rights’ order form for video on disability equality (n.d.); Greater London Council Women’s Committee bulletin (Nov/Dec 1983); Women’s Centre Sutton 10th anniversary event pack; Hackney Women’s Directory (1995/6); Women’s Centre Sutton newsletter (Christmas 1995).

GB 1534 CLCBLG/8/9 · File · 1970-1989
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Postcards, photographs and press cuttings, some of which have been commissioned by and/or featured in Outwrite women’s newspaper.

These images document a wide range of women’s events and protests in the UK and internationally. Includes images relating to GABRIELA (re Filipina women’s struggles), Sisterwrite events, anti-arms and nuclear protests in Geneva and elsewhere, Nandita Gandhi and anti-domestic violence & feminicide protests in India, the Troubles, Gertrude Kandanga-Hilukilwa and Namibian freedom struggles, Eritrean liberation, the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, women at work in Korea, South Wales miners strikes, and much more.

Outwrite Women’s Newspaper
Assorted media
GB 1534 CLCBLG/8/17 · File · 1980-1995
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Loose material: Routledge catalogue of gender and women’s studies books (1995), LESPOP bust card, various press cuttings, photographs, and prints. An item-level list is available for this file.

Box also contains files CLCBLG 8/15 - 8/21.

Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group
Press images - Outwrite
GB 1534 CLCBLG/8/22 · File · 1980-1989
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Card-back press images (some with captions) from Outwrite Women’s Newspaper, postcards, and photographs.

This material relates to feminist and/or social justice struggles in the UK and elsewhere, including: the first Reclaim the Night demo (1978); Ford motors strike (1985); women protesting the death of a woman in a Camden hostel (c.1985); Sheffield Women Against Pit Closures & Greenham Common postcard; Jill Posener; protests against the sale of plastic bullets; demo against the Sun newspaper’s racist reporting; Filipina demo against mail-order brides; Polisario Front women; Pavilion Gallery, Leeds; the Bradford 12; Southall Black Sisters, and more.

Outwrite Women’s Newspaper
GB 1534 CLCBLG/2/1 · File · 1987
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Camden Council Women’s Committee minutes, agendas and appendices, spanning Jan-Sept 1987.

Issues and topics include: domestic violence; policing reforms; International Women’s Day 1987 celebrations; home and community care; lesbian and gay rights; women employed in, and users of, social work services; women and employment; women and housing; strategic planning for Camden into the 1990s; Camden Lesbian & Gay Committee’s work.

Camden Council Women's Committee
GB 1534 CLCBLG/2/3 · File · 1988-1990
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Camden Women’s Committee minutes, agendas and appendices, spanning Jun 1988-Jan 1990. Also includes one Women's Committee newsletter (Sept 1988).

Issues and topics include: challenging sexual harassment and discrimination at work; women and housing; women and employment (including childcare provision and parental leave); training re domestic violence; women and Europe in the context of the 1992 European Social Charter (concerning pregnant women and new mothers’ legal protections re employment); domestic violence refuges in London; anti-discrimination legal reforms (including the introduction of equality and diversity monitoring); women and HIV/AIDs; Camden Lesbian & Gay Committee’s work.

Also includes Camden Council Women’s Committee newsletter (Sept 1988).

Camden Council Women's Committee
Older lesbians
GB 1534 CLCBLG/6/8 · File · 1984-1995
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Material relating to older lesbians.

Includes: ‘Older Women Talking – Getting together to discuss issues affecting your lives’ (20 Nov 1986); ‘Old Lesbians: Out and Proud’, Social Work Today magazine (4 May 1989); report from London Older Lesbians’ Conference (24 Mar 1984), Older Lesbian Network newsletters (Apr 1991, Oct 1991, Jan/Feb 1992, Feb 1992, Mar/Apr 1992, Apr/May 1992, Oct 1993, Nov 1993); Camden Council Women’s Committee, CLCBLG newsletters (incomplete run; various issues c.1988-1991); GEMMA newsletter (Jun 1995), ‘Speaking Out: Herstory of an Old Lesbian’ article (no source; n.d.); list of organisations for lesbians and gay men in Camden, London and nationwide (n.d.).

GB 1534 CLCBLG/8/8 · File · 1970-1989
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

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

These images document a wide range of women’s events and protests in the UK and internationally. Includes images relating to International Women’s Day events, Mauritius Cultural Festival, the Troubles (e.g. Armagh Prison protest), apartheid struggles (e.g. African National Congress postcard), Les Amazones de Guinée, Bangladeshi women’s political activism and struggles, Grenadian and Puerto Rican independence demos, anti-nuclear protests in Japan and elsewhere, communities and workers in Ghana and Eritrea, Aboriginal women’s activism, Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, Pakistani Women’s Action Forum, Salvadoran refugees in Honduras, women in South Africa (including Cape Town and Johannesburg), SWAPO members in Namibia, ‘The Dinner Party’ by Judy Chicago, Indian demos [against killing of Nandita Gandhi], the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, and much more.

Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group
GB 1534 CLCBLG/7/3 · File · c.1986
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Material relating to women’s and lesbian health.

Includes Women’s Health and Information Centre fact sheet on premenstrual syndrome (Sept 1986); articles on mental health & violence against women, disability, and lesbian healthcare from Greater London Council bulletin (Jan 1986); and copy of article about lesbian healthcare and health homophobia (source unknown; n.d.).

GB 1534 CLCBLG/7/5 · File · 1983-1994
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Resources relating primarily to women’s health issues, including Black and Global Majority women’s health, older women’s health, HIV/AIDs, alcoholism, disability, community mental health, lesbian custody, women’s therapy.

Includes reports, health guides, newsletters, bibliographies, information leaflets from organisations including: Camden Parents’ Forum; Greater London Association of Disabled people (GLAD); Crisis; Enuresis Resource & Information Centre (ERIC); Action for Sick Children; Spinal Injuries Association (SIA); Disability Alliance (DA); Mobility Advice & Vehicle Info Service (MAVIS); Macmillan; Greater London Council; Boadicea: The Voice of Disabled Women in London; UN Children’s Rights Development Unit; Rights of Women (re lesbian custody); Drink Crisis Centre; Newham Alcohol Advisory Service; Women’s Alcohol Centre; ‘Lesbians and Booze… A Political Issue’ essay by Sheila Burns; Lesbian Information Service; Greater London Council Women’s Committee; Royal National Institute for Deaf people (RNID); Women’s Therapy Centre; Positively Irish Action on AIDs (PIAA); Mind; Camden & Islington Health Promotion Department.