Feminist Archive North (FAN)
Feminist Archive North website
About the Feminist Archive North (FAN)
The Feminist Archive North (FAN) holds a wide variety of material relating to the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) from 1969 to the present. Topics covered by FAN include the women’s peace movement, women’s studies, women and development, and violence against women.
FAN was created in the 1980s, when material from the Feminist Archive South, the sister archive founded earlier in the South-West, was relocated to the North of England. FAN was housed first in the University of Bradford and then in Leeds Metropolitan University. During this time the collection grew. In 2001 FAN was moved to the University of Leeds.
FAN includes personal and organisational documentary archives, conference papers, dissertations, books, and complete runs of important WLM journals such as Spare Rib, Shrew, Women’s Report, Scarlet Woman, Shifra and Women’s Voice. There are also leaflets, video and audio tapes, posters and other ephemera - a wealth of contemporary material, much of which is unique to this collection.
FAN is a registered charity (no. 282681).
Access and Enquiry Information
Because FAN was moved between institutions before coming to us the arrangement of FAN’s contents was seriously upset. Re-organisation is now in progress, mainly undertaken by FAN trustees and volunteers, but access to parts of FAN remains difficult.
- A list of the journal titles held by FAN (PDF) is available
- A list of dissertations held by FAN (PDF) is available
To enquire about either the contents of the archive or access to its holdings, please contact the Feminist Archive North: fa_north@yahoo.co.uk