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The Women's Library at 100

This year, we are celebrating the centenary of The Women’s Library, the UK’s oldest and largest book, archive and museum collection on the history of feminism, campaigning and activism from the late 19th century.

Join us for an exhibition and a year of free special events, or browse through our online resources and collection guides to learn more about the stories this historic collection holds.

What's on

Find out what we are doing to celebrate 100 years!

Exhibition

Youngsters dressed in costumes and dancing around a room

Upcoming events

A graphic with the text 'The Women's Library At 100".

Share your memories

A graphic including a child sat writing at a makeshift table

Latest digitised collections

National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship

A red and green banner featuring a set of scales and the text National Union of Societies For Equal Citizenship.

Women's Freedom League

A green, gold and white Women's Freedom League badge with Votes For Women written on it.

Association for Moral and Social Hygiene

Member of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene sat for a photo

Emily Wilding Davison's Suffrage Photographs

A portrait of Emily Wilding Davison.

Jill Craigie's Suffrage Photographs

A woman stood giving a speech with two others sat next to them.

Travel books of Eileen Palmer and Edith How-Martyn

A colourful drawing of elephants and people in front of a city gate

Vera 'Jack' Holme Photographs

Vera 'Jack' Holme portrait. Smiling and wearing a bowler hat

Katie Gliddon's Prison Diary

A page of a diary with a drawing of a prison door on

Elsie Duval's Family Scrapbook

Elsie Duval laying on a beach with a dog

Marjory Lees' Suffrage Pilgrimage diary

Newspaper cuttings about suffrage events in 1913

Millicent Garrett Fawcett's Scrapbook

Two portrait photos on top of press cuttings.

The Townswoman

A front cover of The Townswoman journal Vol 4. No.1 1936

Opportunity

The front cover of Opportunity journal Vo. 19. 1939

Movement for the Ordination of Women: oral histories

A woman stood with a placard reading "Women Priests Now" and a dog.

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A magnifying glass

Online resources

Access content from The Women's Library online

The Women's Library digital collections

A group of protestors with placards

The Women's Library on Flickr

A collage of portraits of 3 leading suffrage campaigners.

The Women's Library on YouTube

The YouTube symbol overlayed on a busy lecture theatre

Collection guides

Learn about the themes in The Women's Library collection

The Women's Library

Millicent Fawcett at Hyde Park in London talking to a crowd of suffrage supporters.

Women's suffrage

A woman talking to a crowd at Trafalgar Square in London.

Women's Liberation Movement

A group of 5 women working on and discussing something related to design.

Women's print media

A red-headed girl wearing a dress looking upwards toward a flower she is holding in her hand

Women and sport

A group of people doing aerobics in the street. There is a bus behind them with Women in the Community written on it.

Women and work

A large group of women all lined up at different levels ready for a big group photograph.

Feminism and religion

A group of women with placards.

LSE Digital Library

Access a growing collection of digital content from The Women's Library

She: Journal For The Home

Front cover of She magazine

Mukti: Asian Women's Journal

Front cover of Mukti issue 1

George Lansbury Archive

Front cover of The Suffragette featuring Lansbury and his wife

The Women's Library posters

A yellow and red poster including women with raised fists and the words "So long as women are not free the people are not free"

Movement for the Ordination of Women: oral histories

A woman stood with a placard reading "Women Priests Now" and a dog.

Women's Resource Centre

Women's Resource Centre logo

Greenham Women Everywhere

A green logo with Greenham Women Everywhere and a woman with bolt cutters.

Upcoming events

Blogs and more

Claire Madden: the forgotten feminist

A group of people marching with banners and flags.

Mary Stott: the pioneering woman journalist

A woman in a trenchcoat in front of another holding a Women's Rights placard.

The What Women Want archive

The back of a postcard with a stamp and writing.

Women's environmental activism and the National Federation of Women's Institutes

A group of women seated listening to a talk

“An ever increasing army” – housing the unmarried woman worker in London

A club room with people sat at tables and others playing darts.

Guest curators choose their favourite items from The Women’s Library exhibition

A red badge with the following text: God is an equal opportunities employer - pity about the church

Victorian sex abuse scandal that shocked Britain and changed the law – long before Epstein

The illustration published along with the story in the Illustrated Police News on May 2 1885. Royal Historic Society

In the Pot Bank: Sylvia Pankhurst’s drawing of women workers

A framed picture called: In the Pot Bank: Sylvia Pankhurst’s drawing of women workers

Seven books to read as the Women’s Library turns 100

A group of women protesting with banners watched by a police officer.

Black women poets at Sheba Feminist Publishers

Cover of A Dangerous Knowing

History of The Women's Library

A painting of Vera Douie sat in an armchair

Explore our Google Arts exhibits

Portrait of Emily Wilding Davison.

Making Modern Women

An extract of the masthead of Opportunity magazine

The Friends of The Women's Library

A group of suffrage women marching with umbrellas and placards

Photos from The Women's Library

A person stood at the doors of the Fawcett Library welcoming someone.
1/6 David Doughan welcoming a researcher to the Fawcett Library in the early 1980s. 11TWL
A person stood at the doors of the Fawcett Library welcoming someone.
1/6 David Doughan welcoming a researcher to the Fawcett Library in the early 1980s. 11TWL
Inside the Fawcett Library with people studying at desks and files on shelves.
2/6 The Fawcett Library in the late 1990s. 11TWL
A portrait of Vera Douie
3/6 A portrait of Vera Douie, 1914-1920. TWL.2003.587
People sitting at individual desks doing research.
4/6 The Fawcett Library in the 1980s. 11TWL
A person stood at a long desk pulling one of the chairs away from the table.
5/6 A portrait of Vera Douie, 1956. TWL.2003.593
A large group photo, some people stood and others sat at dressed tables.
6/6 Dinner in honour of Elisabeth Scott, 1928. TWL.2009.02.223

The Women's Library YouTube videos

The Greatest Revolution: Lady Pethick Lawrence on the suffrage campaign

A recording of Lady Pethick Lawrence giving her opinion on the suffrage campaign, created by recording company Gui de Buire for the Suffragette Fellowship on 2 July 1947 to mark the Equal Franchise Act 1928.
The Greatest Revolution: Lady Pethick Lawrence on the suffrage campaign
The Greatest Revolution: Lady Pethick Lawrence on the suffrage campaign
Sylvia Pankhurst: Art and Activism
Sylvia Pankhurst: Art and Activism
For the Dear Love of Comrades
For the Dear Love of Comrades