In 1974, a group of women formed the Women’s Liberation Halfway House (WLHH) in Victoria to provide support and accommodation for women and accompanying children fleeing from domestic and family violence. Forty years on, the need for high security refuge…
Tag: women’s archives
Discovering, Uncovering, Recovering Women’s History
FLA: Feminist and Women’s Libraries and Archives Network First official FLA Gathering – 14th and 15th September at Nottingham Women’s Centre The first official Feminist and Women’s Libraries and Archives Network gathering is to be held at Nottingham Women’s…
Searching for the ‘Invisible Woman’: Working with (and subverting) the archives
What problems do archives raise in trying to reconstruct the lives of women who leave no written record? My first contact with these problems relating to sources can be traced back nearly 40 years ago to my post-graduate studies at…