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GB 1534 CLCBLG · Collection · 1964 - 2001

Papers and correspondence of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group (CLCLBLG), a lesbian feminist collective and physical space (c.1982-1995). Includes autograph, typescript, printed and photocopied material.

The archive includes: personal and business correspondence; CLCBLG administrative records including annual reports, diaries, meeting minutes and agendas, employee information packs, policy and procedural documents, and related material; CLCBLG Management Committee administrative records, including meeting minutes; CLCBLG newsletters; CLCBLG publicity material including flyers, posters and leaflets; press cuttings covering CLCBLG’s development, contemporary lesbian and gay issues, and related issues and communities; newsletters and bulletins of various other women’s, feminist, LGBTQ+, community and/or voluntary organisations; feminist and/or LGBTQ+ periodicals and journals; papers, programmes, flyers and other material relating to various women’s and/or lesbian feminist conferences; literature, flyers and circular correspondence relating to global solidarity campaigns with women in the Global South (e.g., South Africa, Namibia, Chile, indigenous Australian communities, Peru, India, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and elsewhere); administrative records of Camden Council Women’s Committee including meeting minutes; administrative records of Camden Council Lesbian and Gay Unit including meeting minutes; administrative records of A Woman’s Place including meeting minutes and correspondence; literature relating to women’s health and wellbeing, including resource guides and reports; audio cassettes; VHS tapes; material relating to various feminist collectives and women’s groups, including briefings, journals, bulletins, information sheets, legal guidance; academic journal articles and longform journalism; administrative records of London Women’s Centre at Wesley House, 4 Wild Court including meeting minutes, correspondence relating to events and premises, and material relating to groups based at the Centre.

The collection also contains a sizeable photographic archive including original photographs, slides, prints, photocopied and printed images, many of which appear to have originated with – or been featured in – Outwrite women’s newspaper. Many of these photographs document CLCBLG’s life and its members, while others document local, national and international protests, struggles and activist campaigns.

Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group
GB 1534 CLCBLG/1 · Series · 1982 - 1996
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Series contains material relating to the establishment, management, activities, and eventual closure (c.1996) of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group. Includes meeting agendas and minutes, newsletters, annual reports, correspondence, flyers, posters, leaflets, press cuttings, message books, workers' logbooks, commissioned research, and more.

Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group
GB 1534 CLCBLG/1/14 · File · 1986-1988
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Bundle of material relating to the Association of London Authorities’ Lesbian and Gay Committee and the Lesbian and Gay Officer/s, including reports, meeting minutes, agendas, and related documents. Covers issues as they relate to local and national lesbian and gay communities, including policing, housing, workplace law and workers’ rights, Section 28, anti-discrimination strategies and training provision, HIV/AIDS, developments in lesbian and gay issues across the UK, and more.

Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group
External review of CLCBLG
GB 1534 CLCBLG/1/15 · File · 1990
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Material relating to Camden Council-contracted consultant’s 1990 report and proposed restructuring of the CLCBLG.

Includes: draft review of CLCBLG; correspondence (including responses from GEMMA, Black Lesbian & Gay Centre and other affiliates; questionnaires for Centre users; and meeting minutes; regarding the proposed restructuring of the CLCBLG following an external review.

Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group
Camden Council committees
GB 1534 CLCBLG/2 · Series · 1986 - 1994
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Series contains material relating to Camden Council Women's Committee and its Lesbian and Gay Committee. Includes meeting agendas and minutes, newsletters, reports, correspondence, and more.

Camden Council’s Women’s Committee and its Lesbian & Gay Committee worked closely with CLCBLG and were their central links to the state, acting as advocates for women's and lesbian & gay issues on 'the inside'.

Camden Council Women's Committee
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/2/10 · File · 1986
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Material relating to Camden Lesbian and Gay Project, including: press releases, bulletins/digests, correspondence and circulars regarding establishing a Lesbian and Gay Unit within Camden Council; material (including flyer and follow-up notes) from Camden Lesbian Day on 3 May 1986; proposals for a L&G Unit by a Women’s Committee Lesbian Project Worker; and related material.

Camden Council Lesbian and Gay Committee
GB 1534 CLCBLG/2/2 · File · 1987-1988
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Camden Council Women’s Committee minutes, agendas and appendices, spanning Oct 1987-Jun 1988.

Issues and topics include: Camden Lesbian & Gay Pride 1988; the implementation, effects of, and resistance to, Section 28; women and HIV/AIDS; lesbian custody; women and the poll tax; women and employment (including childcare provision); women and housing; Camden Lesbian & Gay Committee’s work.

Camden Council Women's Committee