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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
CLCBLG correspondence
GB 1534 CLCBLG/1/38 · File · 1980-1990
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Incoming and outgoing CLCBLG correspondence and records relating to events including conferences and demonstrations.

Correspondents include Camden Black Lesbian Group, Camden Council Social Services Department, and Camden Council Mental Health Resource Group. Also contains a list of contacts and AGM programme for Camden Black Workers’ Group, and I Am Your Sister: Forging Global Connections Across Differences conference programme & cover letter (Oct 1990).

GB 1534 CLCBLG/7/4 · File · 1980-1994
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Material relating to women’s health and experiences of (dis)ability, including reports, health guides, newsletters, campaign guides, conference packs.

Includes: ‘Unite’ newsletter from NUS Women’s Campaign (Feb 1987); Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine 8.7 (Jul 1990); publications list, order form (n.d.) and ‘Abortion Care: A Practical Guide’ publication from Women’s Health & Reproductive Rights Information Centre (Sept 1989); ‘The Look After Yourself! Health Guide’ from the Health Education Council (n.d.); conference delegates pack for Promoting Our Health: Britain’s Third National Lesbian & Gay Health Conference (5 Nov 1990); conference delegates pack for Promoting Our Health: Britain’s Second National Lesbian & Gay Health Conference (11 Sept 1989); ‘Health & Welfare in Camden: A Handbook for Elderly People’ by Hampstead Community Health Council et al (Oct 1991); TV-AM ‘Cervical Cancer Campaign’ health awareness booklet (May 1988); Anorexia & Bulimia Nervosa Association (ABNA) newsletter (1988); NUS ‘Women and Health Resource’ briefing 297 (n.d. [c.1980s]); ‘Organisation Building’ resource pack by Agnes Fletcher for Disability Awareness in Action (1994); NUS ‘Women’s Reproductive Rights’ briefing 244 (Spring 1987); ‘Women’s Health & Mental Illness’ broadsheet by London Women & Mental Health Group (n.d. [c.1980s]); minutes of International Lesbian & Gay People of Colour Conference (ILGPOCC) Women’s Caucus (4 Jun 1990); Women’s Health Information Exchange newsletter 11 (Sept 1988); Women’s Health Information Exchange newsletter 1 (1987); London Black Women’s Health Action Project newsletter 6 (Mar 1987); ILGPOCC planning committee minutes (9 Sept 1990); London Black Women’s Health Action Project newsletter 9 (Jun 1988).

GB 1534 CM/2/4 · Item · 1994
Part of Cathy McCormack Archive

Letter to McCormack from Margaret Whitehead regarding McCormack’s article “From the Fourth to the Third World: A Common Vision of Health”. Also extends invitation for McCormack to talk at a conference workshop in Copenhagen

Cathy McCormack
LGBT+ groups and issues
GB 1534 CLCBLG/5/4 · File · 1990
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Material relating to LGBT+ issues, lesbian & gay groups and women’s groups.

Includes: Photocopies of ‘In Touch…’ Surbiton Conservatives bulletin (n.d.) and press cuttings re Tory funding cutbacks targeted at LGBT community; Camden Labour Briefings (1987); factsheet on genital warts by Bloomsbury Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinics (n.d.); photocopy of Camden Lesbian and Gay Unit (CLAGU) grant application and information pack; letter from South London Women’s Centre cancelling an upcoming lesbian group meeting (19 Oct 1990); minutes of a Black Lesbian & Gay Centre Project meeting (13 Sept 1990); Camden HIV Unit World AIDS Day info leaflet (c.1980s); Camden World AIDS Day 1990 material including poster, outline of events (1990); and Camden Health Promotion dept information on its HIV & Sexual Health Education team (n.d.).

Young lesbians
GB 1534 CLCBLG/6/6 · File · 1980-1996
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

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.

GB 1534 CLCBLG/6/18 · File · c.1984-1989
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Press cuttings from various issues of Capital Gay magazine, covering many facets of LGBTQ+ cultural and social life in London and the UK, including Pride marches, protests & demonstrations, the debate around S&M and fetish gear, employment, housing and homelessness, HIV/AIDS, Section 28, politics, and related issues & events.

Capital Gay
Feminist newsletters
GB 1534 CLCBLG/6/31 · File · 1992-1996
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

Newsletters from various feminist and community groups.

Includes: Amach Linn newsletter (Feb 1996); ‘Aqui Nosotras: Bulletin of the European-Latin American Women’s Network’ (Dec 1995); Disability Awareness in Action newsletters 32-33 (Nov & Dec 1995); Dykenosis (LesBeWell) newsletters 6-7 (Oct & Dec 1995); Esto No Tiene Nombres magazine 3.1 (1994); Feminist Library newsletter (Autumn 1995); International Lesbian Information Service (ILIS) newsletter 16.3 (1995); News Line: The Voice of Blackliners newsletter 13 (Dec 1995); Northgate News: The Voice of Oxford Lesbian and Gay Centre 55 (Feb 1996); Older Lesbian Network newsletters (Oct 1995, Nov 1995, Dec 1995, Jan 1996); photocopied ‘Les is more’ article from Time Out magazine 1296 (21-28 Jun 1995); Women’s Health newsletter 22 (May 1994); Zaminews 2.1 (1992).

VHS tapes
GB 1534 CLCBLG/8/25 · File · 1980-1995
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

VHS tapes:
La Mer Cruelle (1953 [1980s]), The Doll Maker (1984), La Vie est Belle (1987), Horizon: Black Schizophrenia (1989), A World Apart (1988), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Good Health #3: You Chouse – Drugs (n.d.), Where the Green Ants Dream (1984), Black and White (n.d.), Out on Tuesday (tape 3; 1990), The March (1990) & Everyman: Will the March Go On? (n.d.), Out on Tuesday episodes (1989), Out [on Tuesday] (tape 1; 1992), Silkwood (1983), Out on Tuesday (tape 3; n.d.), Heart of the Matter: Gay Rights [c.1987], Channel 4: Deaf Awareness Day programmes (n.d.), Free Down Square (n.d.) and Back of the Moon (n.d.) and Suffer [Little] Children (1976), The Quack Who Cured Cancer (1987) and Your Life in Their Hands (TV show; n.d.) and A Way of Healing (n.d.) and The Fall (n.d.).

Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group
VHS tapes
GB 1534 CLCBLG/8/26 · File · 1980-1995
Part of Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group Archive

VHS tapes:
Red Skirts on Clydeside (1984), Heart of the Matter (1953) & Signals: Section 28 Two Years On (1989), Hush-a-Bye Baby (1990), Charulata (1964), Backlash (1956), The AIDS Show (1986), Disabling World (Tape 3; n.d.), Your Life in their Hands: Angel (n.d.), Nowhere Else to Go (Tape 2; n.d.), Before Stonewall (1984), Out (n.d.), Lesbian Health Matters (1995), Black Cinema from Europe (n.d.), The Home and the World (1984), Disabling World (Tape 1; n.d.), Leave All Fire (n.d.), A Song for Europe (1985), Scrubbers (1982), Everyman (n.d.), My Left Foot (1989).

Camden Lesbian Centre and Black Lesbian Group