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Folder containing: copy of homophobic arson threat sent to Hampden Community Centre about CLCBLG after a women-only event (12 Mar 1987); related letter from Hampden Court worker (1 Apr 1987), related letter from CLCBLG to Parker & Klein (21 Apr 1987); related letter from CLCBLG to local councillor (21 Apr 1987); copy of article from Hampstead & Highgate about arson threat (17 Apr 1987); cutting from Outwrite about change to Human Rights Code in Ontario, Canada (Apr 1987).

Records relating to Phoenix Road premises, including: correspondence covering planning permission; complaints from local residents; and architectural plans and costing.

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.

Material relating to young lesbians, including correspondence, newsletters, information literature, and meeting minutes.

Includes material from Lesbian Information Service (including Alcohol, Older Lesbian and Youth sections), Stonewall Postal Action Network, Lesbians on the Loose, London Irish Women’s Centre, Lesbian Youth Support Information Service (LYSIS), Young Lesbian Vox Pop (based in NW England), Samaritans, and other groups.

Newsletters from various lesbian organisations, including: Ipswich Lesbians (Apr 1990); Lezzie Zone (n.d.), Working Class Lesbian Newsletter (Nov 1983), Wisconsin Women’s Land Co-op (Winter 1981, Summer 1983). Also includes a copy of Spare Rib (Feb 1985).

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).

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.

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.

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.

Ephemera related to the line’s activities and other feminist organisations. Contains leaflets for a community group gathering in Gwynedd called Cadwyn Gwynedd; a printed photo of Patricia Highsmith, a flyer for Trouble and Strife radical feminist magazine, a graffitied flyer with homophobic messages, and handouts from workshop exercises.