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Newsletters, publications, and annual reports from various women’s groups.

Includes: West Hampstead Women’s Resource Book (n.d. [c.1980s]); Shape annual report (1986/7); ‘We have Always Been Here’, report by Linda King, Black worker at the Lesbian Archive and Information Centre (Jun 1989); Peckham Black Women’s Centre annual report (1986/7); Camden Women’s Voice (Oct 1987); Rawshini Asian women’s newsletter (Dec/Jan 1986/7); ‘Lesbians & the Law: Some Papers for Discussion’ from Legislation for Lesbian & Gay Rights Conference (May 1987); Black Lesbian & Gay Centre Project annual report (1987); CLCBLG newsletter (Sept 1992); CLCBLG annual report (1986/7).

Material relating to various council-led or -supported voluntary services and groups.

Includes: London Voluntary Service Council (LVSC) annual report (1987/88); Capital Issues: The Journal of the London Strategic Policy Unit 4 (Jun 1987); Artswork magazine 16 (Oct/Nov 1987); LVSC meeting minutes and circulars; Voluntary Sector Forum newsletters (mAY 1988, Oct 1988, Nov 1988, Dec 1988, Jan 1989, Feb 1989, Mar 1989, Apr 1989, May 1989); LVSC Briefing bulletin (c.1988); National Arts Fundraising Schools information sheet (c.1988); Voluntary Voice magazine (Jul 1989); London Lesbian & Gay Voluntary Sector Network press release (n.d.), meeting minutes (Nov 1988), and note outlining Network’s relationship to LVSC (c.1988); London Boroughs Grants Committee report on information packs (19 Apr 1989); and London Boroughs Grants Scheme Report 86-87 (c.1987).

Material relating to the London voluntary sector and various organisations and representative bodies therein.

Includes: correspondence, research digests, bulletins and meeting minutes & reports of the London Voluntary Sector Forum (LVSF; c.1987-1989); London Voluntary Service Council info leaflet (Mar 1986); Voluntary Voice newsletter and leaflet (May 1987); briefing on the Local Government Bill and its implications for voluntary organisations from National Association of Community Relations Councils (c.1987); meeting minutes, correspondence and circulars from LVSC (c.1986-1987); list of candidates list and results for Independent Voluntary Sector Forum elections [c.1987?]; and Greater London Council-produced explanatory notes for voluntary organisations following GLC’s abolition (c.1986).

Minutes and writings produced by the London Lesbian Offensive Group. Includes; minutes, articles, newspaper clippings, editing notes, and correspondence

Papers relating to the London Lesbian Line. Includes; minutes, correspondence, monthly records, training packets, booklets, logbooks, VHS tapes, floppy disc

Envelope of photographs of London Lesbian Line staff. Also includes two London Lesbian Line stickers and an image of ‘Women Like Us: A Booklet for Exploring Women’s Sexuality’ (n.d.). Photographs by Em Fitzgerald.

Material relating to women, lesbians and gay men with disabilities and disability rights activism.

Includes: GEMMA Disabled Gays Guide (1983/4); Lambeth Women’s Rights Committee ‘Women with Disabilities Information Booklet’ (Sept 1985); ‘A Right to Equality: A London charter for people with disabilities’ by Greater London Council (n.d.); information leaflet for Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied (PHAB; n.d.); information booklet for Resource Team: for people with learning difficulties (n.d.); Sensory Visionaid newsletter (Summer 1990); ‘Access for Disabled People: Design Guidance Notes for Developers’ by Access Committee for England ([1985]); press release for Navigator Braille seminar (n.d.).

Various LGBTQ and feminist publications, including: Paper Gai (Spanish-language LGBT+ magazine from Valencia; May 1994); ONE/IGLA bulletin (newsletter of ONE Institute/International Gay and Lesbian Archive; Spring 1995); First Things First: Books for Women catalogue (1975/76); short story called ‘It need Never have Happened’ (n.d.); the Fawcett Library newsletter (Jan 1995); ‘Meeting the Educational Needs of our Children’, 2nd African Books Festival brochure (Nov 1987); Images of Women newsletter (n.d. [c.1970s]); Gay Concern newsletter (n.d. [c.1970s]); Roman Catholic Feminist newsletter (Oct 1979); London Irish Women’s Centre information pack (n.d.); and notes regarding men on premises [at A Woman's Place or London Women's Centre?; n.d.].

Also contains conference papers from British Sociological Association Conference, 5-8 April 1982: ‘Gender marking in teachers’ assessments’ by Jane French, University of Manchester; ‘National Reproduction: Sexism, Racism & the State’ by Nira Yuval Davis, Thames Polytechnic; ‘Women and Caring: Skills, Tasks and Taboos’ by Clare Ungerson, University of Kent; ‘Purification or Social Control? Ideologies of Reproduction and the Churching of Women after Childbirth by Peter Rushton, Sunderland Polytechnic; ‘Theories of Sexuality in Medical Practice: A Working Paper’ by Ong Bie Mo and Jane Rosser; ‘The Sexual Harassment of Working Women’ by Stephen J. Morewitz, University of Chicago; ‘The Regulation of Fertility – Some Social and Historical Questions’ by Caroline Love; ‘Crowd Control at English Football Matches: Some Issues of Gender’ by Jerry M. Lewis, Kent State University; ‘Food as an Indicator of Social Relations’ by Marion Kerr and Nickie Charles; ‘Community Study of Violence to Women’ by Jane Hanmer and Sheila Saunders (University of Bradford), ‘Social Gender and linguistic Gender: Masculine and Feminine in Language and Society’ by Jean Crocker, University of Newcastle; ‘Hide and Clique: Structural Aspects in Disclosure of a Discreditable Identity’ by Peter M. Davies, University College Cardiff; ‘Towards a Sociology of Domestic Economy’ by Anne Goldthorpe and Judy Worsnop; ‘The Professions and the Semi-Professions: The Control of Emotions and the Construction of Masculinity’ by Jeff Hearn, University of Bradford; ‘Illness, Crime and the ‘Female Role’: Problems in the Analysis of Sex and Gender’ by Anne Edwards Hiller, Monash University.

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.).