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Specialized Archives, Libraries or Collections

A Daring Experiment: Harvard and Business Education for Women, 1937-1970 An online exhibit from the Baker Library at at the Harvard Business School.
AARDT Associazione Archivi Riuniti delle Donne Ticino Library and documentation centre in Melano, Switzerland: online guides to the collections, online catalogue, and information about women's history collections in other repositories.
Aletta Instituut voor Vrouwengeschiedenis Formerly IIAV - International Information Centre and Archives for the Women's Movement. General information in Dutch and English, online catalogue, a database with information on women's archives in the Netherlands (DAVA), a database containing c. 5,000 bibliographic records describing (mainly Dutch) titels from the IIAV collections dealing with the position of black women, migrant women and refugees, and a database of women's information services and profiles of women's information services world-wide (Mapping the World). The Institute also houses the women and law collections from the former Clara Wichmann Instituut.
Alice Marshall Women's History Collection Part of the Penn State Harrisburg Library's Special Collections and Archives, this collection consists of literary, graphic, and manuscript materials dealing with the issues and individuals that comprised women's history from the 15th century to the early 1980s. See also the information on Women's Studies collections at www.libraries.psu.edu/socialsciences/women/
All Sewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing, and Costume Digitized millinery, dressmaking, clothing and costume books (1907 – 1940’s) from the UW-Madison collections. These books from the first half of the 20th century include the history of clothing, styles of dress, fashion drawing, and design and construction of hats, clothing and costumes. At the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections group.
ArchFem: Archiv für Feministische Dokumentation, Innsbruck A documentation centre at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Under construction, but offers an email and a visitors address.
Archiefcentrum voor vrouwengeschiedenis (AVG-Carhif) - Centre d’Archives pour l’Histoire des Femmes (Carhif-AVG) (Brussels). Belgian Archive Centre on Women's History specializing in women’s history. The centre houses archival materials, books, magazines and pictures related to women’s history and the history of the women’s movement in Belgium.
Archif Menwyod Cymru / Women’s Archive of Wales Information about this organization which aims to promote the study, and to rescue and preserve the sources, of women's history in Wales. The collections, which are held in existing record offices in Wales, and the National Library of Wales, range from single items to large collections of documents, photographs, newsletters and other material.
Archiv der deutschen Frauenbewegung Library, archives and study centre in Kassel, Germany. General information in German.
Archiv für Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte Ostschweiz (St. Gallen). Archives and documentation centre of the women's movement in east Switzerland.
Archives du Féminisme A French association that was founded to preserve the papers of feminists and feminists organizations. With the Bibliothèque universitaire d’Angers it established the Centre des Archives du Féminisme.
Archives of Women in Science and Engineering At Iowa State University. The collection includes personal and professional papers of women and women's organizations in all areas of the sciences and engineering, except that of the medical sciences. General information, a guide to the collection, a bibliography of secondary sources, and a list of related web links.
Archivi Riuniti delle Donne Lost (Milano). The United Women's Archives is an association aiming at safeguarding primary sources for women's history and promoting research and education in this field. It houses the records of the Unione Femminile Nazionale and the collections of the Fondazione Elvira Badaracco, including those of the Fondo del Centro studi storici sul Movimento di liberazione della donna in Italia. Homepage in Italian.
Archivio Centrale dell'Unione Donne in Italia (UDI) (Rome)
Ariadne A special service at the Austrian National Library. Online database, an international bibliography of bibliographies, online catalogue of Austrian historical women's periodicals and other resources for women's history.
Associazione Archivio per la memoria e la scrittura delle donne The aim of the Association is to list women's archives and writings by women in Tuscany from the 16th century to the present, to acquire such collections, and to make them available for research. The Association closely cooperates with the State Archive of Florence. The site has information in Italian on the history and activities of the Association, biographies of several individuals and collection information, and links to other Italian documentary institutions and resources.
Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives Established in 1978, the primary goal of the Archives is to recover and preserve any materials that record the lives and experience of Lesbians and Gay men in Australia. The ALGA collection is the biggest repository of historical materials about homosexuals and homosexuality in Australia.
Australian Women's Art Register An archive and repository of slides, published material and other written sources documenting Australian women artists, their art practice, their images and their writings. A diverse range of media and art disciplines, including craft, design, photography, installation, are represented in the archive, as well as various styles and all eras from the Victorian period. The Register is located at the Richmond (formerly Carringbush) Library in Melbourne.
Bear Ye One Another's Burdens: The Girls' Friendly Society 1875-2005 An online exhibition based on the archive of the Girls' Friendly Society (GFS), held at The Women's Library.
Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History (Guilderland, New York). General information and Guide to Records on Nursing in New York State at the Bellevue Alumnae Center for Nursing History. From the Foundation of the New York State Nurses Association.
Beyond the Picket Fence Australian women's art in the National Library of Australia. Web version of an exhibition which was held from 8th March to 4th June 1995. Many reproductions - in two formats, with explanatory texts - of drawings, paintings, prints and photographs from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century.
Biblioteca de mujeres (Madrid) A lending library containing 17,000 volumes: works on feminism, history, health, psychology, sexuality, law, art, employment, science, sport, biographies; literary works, and documents issued by the Spanish Feminist Movement, and periodicals.
Biblioteca Italiana delle Donne (Bologna). Information on the collections in Italian and English, online catalog.
Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand Paris, France. General information on the Library and its collections and its collector Marguerite Durand (1864-1936), from the Association Archives du Féminisme website.
Canadian Women Artists History Initiative The CWAHI aims to bring scholars together to research art made by women in Canada prior to 1967. The website provides information about CWAHI activities and conferences, their Documentation Centre, links to the Historical Canadian Women Artists Bio-bibliographic Database and other resources.
Canadian Women's Movement Archives CWMA This collection documents the post-1960 Canadian women's movement. It focuses on non-governmental organizations working for the improvement of the political, social and economic conditions of Canadian women with a particular interest in small grass-root groups and events.
Centre des Archives du fï¿½minisme CAF A cooperation of the university of Angers and the Association Archives du Fï¿½minisme, the Centre was founded to safeguard the heritage of the French feminist movement. It is, among others, the repository of Cï¿½cile Brunschvicg's papers and the archives of the Conseil national des femmes franï¿½aises. The collections are kept in the university library of Angers. The website contains extensive information on the Centre's collections, publications and activities.
Centro de Documentación de la Mujer y Archivo Histórico "Nancy Cárdenas" General information about this Mexican documentation centre.
Cherchez la femme dans les archives de l'AMSAB Online guide to gender related collections in AMSAB, Ghent, the most important repository for the socialist movement in Flanders compiled by Paule Verbruggen and others (MS Word file, 11 pp., 65 Kb).
Co-operative Women's Guild (Manchester). The National Co-operative Archive's collections include pamphlets from the Guild's campaigns and journals, the best known of which is Woman's Outlook, published from 1919 to 1967.
Collections Pertaining to Women's History and Women's Issues from the State Archives of Florida A detailed listing of all relevant records within the State Archives of Florida. It also provides links and descriptions of other Florida-related records found across the state and nation. The guide also provides an extensive bibliography.
Dokumentationsstelle des Eidgenössischen Büros für die Gleichstellung von Frau und Mann EBG Library of the Swiss bureau for gender equality (Bern). Overview of the collections, online catalogue.
Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection Marquette University Libraries, Milwaukee, WI. The Catholic Worker was founded in New York City in 1933 by Dorothy Day (1897-1980), a radical journalist who had converted to Catholicism, and Peter Maurin (1877-1949), an itinerant French worker/scholar. The collection includes the personal papers of Dorothy Day.
Feminist Archive (Bristol) The Feminist Archive (South) in Bristol, England, houses national and international material of the second wave of feminism (roughly 1960-2000). General information, an online newsletter and links to websites of other centers for women's studies in the U.K.
Feminist Archive North (FAN) The Feminist Archive North, in the Special Collections of the Leeds University Library, holds a wide variety of material relating to the Women’s Liberation Movement 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. General information, lists of journal titles and dissertations held by FAN.
Five College Archives Digital Access Project This Web site provides access to digitized versions of archival records and manuscript collections relating primarily to women's history, particularly women's education at the Five Colleges.
Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica The International Adkins Chiti Women in Music Foundation organises festivals, concert series, exhibitions, research projects, publications, conventions, and master classes. Its library and archives in Fiuggi and Rome house over 32 thousand scores of women’s music and and over 15 thousand CD titles of music by women. The website contains general information about the Foundation and its activities. The database pages are under construction.
Fondazione Istituto Gramsci The collections include the archive of the women's section of the PCI, the papers of Rita Majerotti, Franca Pieroni Bortolotti, Gisella Floreanini, and writer Sibilla Aleramo.
Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso: Biblioteca: Fondi speciali: Storia delle donne The collection includes rare publications such as M. Wollstonecraft, A vindication of the rights of woman (London 1792), pamphlets from the French Revolution (Un mot sur le divorce, Paris 1791) and periodicals such as La voix des femmes (Paris 1848) or La difesa delle lavoratrici (Milano, 1912-22).
Fonds Suzan Daniel General information about the Belgian gay/lesbian archive and documentation centre.
Frauen in der Geschichte Documents for women's history in the archival and manuscript collections of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Bonn); see also Documents on gender and womens's history in the Archives of Social Democracy in the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Women in the German labour movement: an inventory of newspapers, journals, minutes, and reports in the Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (PDF)
Frauenarchiv Osnabrück General information in German.
Frauenbibliothek MONALiesA Leipzig. General information in German.
Frauenbildungszentrum Denk(t)räume Hamburg. Educational center, library, archive and videotheque. General information in German.
Frauenforschungs-, -bildungs- und -informationszentrum FFBIZ Berlin Women's Research, Education, and Information Center. Information in German and English about the Centre's collections.
Frauenkulturarchiv der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 'Frauenforschungs-Transfer-Stelle': information centre. The website contains a directory of German language libraries and archives, a list of websites and online biographies of Edith Stein, Bertha von Suttner, Annette Kolb, Ricarda Huch and Simone de Beauvoir, Germaine de Staël and others.
Frauenkulturarchiv Graubünden (Chur). Archives, library, and research centre for the history of women in Graubünden.
FrauenMediaTurm Information centre for women's history, Cologne. Online catalogue, illustrated historical overview of the feminist movement in the nineteen sixties and seventies.
FrauenStadtArchiv Dresden Archival and research centre. The website gives access to biographical databases ("Sammlungen") containing information on individual women, women's trades and occupations, and women's organizations in Dresden and Saxony.
Frida Verein zur Förderung und Vernetzung Frauenspezifischer Informations- und Dokumentationseinrichtungen in Österreich. Network of Austrian Women's Studies Libraries and Archives.
GALA Gay and Lesbian Archives for South Africa At the University of the Witwatersrand. General information and a guide to the GALA archival collections.
Gay and Lesbian History at The National Archives: An Introduction A Research Guide from the UK National Archives.
Gender Project Documentation Centre The Centre, at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, houses a specialist collection of published and unpublished materials in the field of gender equality and women's rights. General information.
Genike Grammateia Isotetas - Bibliotheke LOST Founded in 1984, the Women's Issues Library of the General Secretariat of Equality is the only library in Greece for gender equality issues and women's history. General information in Greek.
Gerritsen Collection Online Books and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights collected by Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen from the late 1800s. General information about this online resource, which is not available for free.
Glasgow Women's Library An information centre housing a lending library, archive collections and contemporary and historical artefacts relating to women’s lives, histories and achievements. It is host to the Lesbian Archive & Information Centre General information.
Gosteli-Stiftung (Worblaufen). Archiv zur Geschichte der schweizerischen Frauenbewegung. Records of Swiss women's organisations of the last 100 years, Information about the collections in German, English and French.
Guide to Gay and Lesbian Resources: A Classified Bibliography Based upon the Collections of the University of Chicago Library Over 4500 monographs and serials in the University of Chicago Library collections that deal primarily with gay and lesbian themes, compiled by Frank Conaway a.o. (2002).
Hall-Carpenter Archives The Hall-Carpenter Archives (HCA) founded in 1982 are the largest source for the study of gay activism in Britain which followed the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1958. At the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Human Factor: 1920s and 1930s Industrial Photography Exhibit at Harvard Business School's Historical Collections The introductory exhibition and web site include a selection from the over 2,100 images that comprise the Industrial Life Photograph Collection, featuring the work of such artists as Margaret Bourke-White and Lewis Hine.
IDEA Vrouwenbibliotheek (Utrecht) Women's Library Utrecht, Netherlands. General information in Dutch.
IFF - Uni Bielefeld: Dokumentation Interdisziplinäre Frauenforschungs-Zentrum (IFF), University of Bielefeld, Germany. The documentation centre has information on women in science and research, periodicals, and grey literature.
Institut Català de la Dona General information, in Catalan, about the activities of this Catalonian institution, documentation centre, online catalog.
Institute for Gender Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen The Netherlands. General information in Dutch and English on the Institute's courses, research program and documentation centre; access to its online catalogue.
International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) at Virginia Tech documents the history of women's involvement in architecture by archiving the professional papers of women architects. A guide to the collections, online inventories, a biographical directory and other resources.
International Homo/Lesbian Informationcenter and Archives (IHLIA) An organization with two branches: Homodok-Lesbisch Archief (Amsterdam) and Anna Blaman Huis (Leeuwarden). General information in Dutch and English, online catalogues of the main collections and the reconstructed Schorer library.
Iowa Women's Archives, University of Iowa General information, alphabetical and subjects lists of the IWA collections, and selected finding aids.
Josephine Butler Collections at the University of Liverpool Information about the collections, a biographical sketch, a bibliography of Butler's works, links to related collections.
Kadın Eserleri Kütüphanesi ve Bilgi Merkezi Vakfı The Women's Library and Information Center Foundation (Istanbul) was founded in 1990. It houses a collection of 10.018 books, more than 230 periodicals, and thousands of newspaper clippings, articles and documents. Online catalogue; information in Turkish and English about the Library's collections and activities.
Kate Sharpley Library (London) Named in honour of Kate Sharpley, a First World War anarchist and anti-war activist, the Library was founded in South London in 1979 and reorganized in 1991. Its holdings include 10,000 English language books, pamphlets and periodicals on anarchism; a collection of posters, leaflets, manuscripts, letters, and internal records, including reports from the IWA (AIT/IAA), the Anarchist Federation of Britain (1945-1950), the Syndicalist Workers Federation (1950-1979), Cienfuegos Press, and ASP.
Katholiek Documentatie Centrum at the University of Nijmegen. Its holdings include Roman Catholic trade unions' and women's organizations' records. For a list go to: Stands- en vakorganisaties.
Kvennasögusafn Íslands The Library of Women's History, Reykjavík, Iceland, is the repository of archives of organizations, women's personal papers, letters and diaries, literary works, photographs, newspaper clippings and other documents. The language of the website is Icelandic, with general information in English.
Kvindehistorisk Samling General information in Danish about the women's history collections in the State and University Library, Aarhus, Denmark
Lesbian Archive and Information Centre (LAIC, Glasgow) Set up in London in 1984 LAIC contains the UK's largest and most significant collection of materials about lesbian lives, activism and achievements. The Archive relocated to Glasgow Women's Library in 1995.
Lesbisch Archief Nijmegen Lesbian Archive Nijmegen, Netherlands. General information in Dutch.
Maria Mitchell Association | Archives and Special Collections Maria Mitchell was America’s first woman astronomer. Housed in the former schoolhouse of William Mitchell, the Maria Mitchell Association preserves Maria Mitchell's manuscripts, 19th century scientific books, contemporary scientific journals, the personal and professional papers of members of the Mitchell Family, and the records of the Maria Mitchell Association.
Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity (Boston) This institution houses all of Mrs. Eddy's published and unpublished works. The website offers biographical and bibliographical information about Mary Baker Eddy and information about the Library's collection and activities.
National Transgender Library & Archive Information about The National Transgender Library & Archive, part of the University of Michigan Library.
National Woman's Party Digital Collection (Washington D.C.). The National Woman's Party (NWP) holds a unique collection of records and artifacts that document the mass political movement for women's full citizenship in the 20th century, both in the United States and throughout the world.
NYPL, Women's Studies Research Guide A Guide to the Collections of The New York Public Library. The collections consist of retrospective holdings relating to women, including manuscript and archival material, as well as a broad range of current Women's Studies materials reflecting new trends and thought on feminist theory and scholarship.
Organizaciones de mujeres An overview of the collection of women's political and trade union organizations in the Archivo histórico PCE, the historical archives of the Spanish communist party, at the website of the Fundación de Investigaciones Marxistas (FIM).
Primary Sources for Women's History in the University Library At the University of York Library
RoSa Documentation Centre and Archives Flemish documentation centre, library and archives on equal opportunities, the position of women and gender studies. The collection consists of books, national and international periodicals and leaflets. The website gives general information and access to the RoSa library catalogue.
Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture The Center in Duke University’s Special Collections Library acquires, preserves and makes available to a large population of researchers published and unpublished materials that reflect the public and private lives of women, past and present.
Sammlung Frauennachlässe am Institut für Geschichte General information about this collection of letters, diaries, photographs and other personal documents at the University of Vienna.
Schlesinger Library The Schlesinger Library holds letters and diaries, photographs, books and periodicals, ephemera, oral histories, and audiovisual materials that document the history of women, families, and organizations, primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is also home to an extensive culinary collection. The Schlesinger Library also houses the Radcliffe Archives.
Schwarze Witwe e.V. Autonome Frauenforschungsstelle Münster e.V. Documentation Centre, General information.
Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv / Archive: Frauenbewegung A list and brief descriptions of the archival collections for the women's movement in the Swiss Social Archive, Zurich, the largest labour history collection in Switzerland.
Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, Women's History Manuscripts Northampton, MA. The collection consists of 6,000 linear feet of material in manuscript, print, and audio- visual formats. The holdings document the historical experience of women in the United States and abroad from the colonial era to the present.
Soroptimist Archives The Soroptimist Archives, housed at Soroptimist headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is open to all researchers.
Sources for Women's History at the International Institute of Social History An overview of the primary sources for women's and gender history in the archival and manuscript collections of the IISH.
Sources for Women's Studies in the Methodist Archives Selected material deposited in the Methodist Archives and Research Centre (MARC) at the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. This women's studies specific information has disappeared from the website.
Sources in U.S. Women's Labor History A finding guide for research materials on the history of American women and labor at the Tamiment Institute Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, NYC.
Special collections in the University of Huddersfield Archives The G. H. Wood collection: manuscript wages material, monographs, pamphlets, government reports and periodicals. The subjects covered include economic and social history, education, health, housing and women's history. There is also a valuable collection of pamphlets published by feminist organisations in the early twentieth century as well as a substantial set of Fabian Society material.
Spinnboden - Lesbenarchiv Berlin Holds documents from the early (before 1945) and contemporary women's and Lesbian movements, German periodicals from the turn of the century, the 1920's, the 1970's-1990's, and works of fiction. General information in German.
Stichting Savante, Vrouwenbibliotheek, - Archief en Documentatiecentrum Groningen, 1978 - 2005 Women's library and documentation centre for the town and province of Groningen, the Netherlands. Its holdings are in the RHC Groninger Archieven. Online inventory.
Stichwort: Archiv der Frauen- und Lesbenbewegung Bibliothek, Dokumentation, Multimedia This centre in Vienna, Austria, collects documentation pertaining to the women's and lesbians' movements and provides access to literature relevant to feminist research. General information, newsletter, online catalog.
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. and U.K., 1815-1914 Studies in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 separately published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's trial collections. Included are the adultery trial of Caroline, Queen Consort of George IV, the sodomy trial of Oscar Wilde. The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women.
UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery Information on archives and resources.
VENA Library and Information Services At the Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University, the Netherlands. A collection of books, periodicals and grey literature on women and development in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Online catalogue, links to online resources in the same field.
Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive of California State University, Long Beach This site provides access to the full audio recordings of oral histories that have been deposited in Special Collections of the University Library. The CSULB oral history collections have been assembled from a number of sources and cover topics such as women's history, ethnic studies and labour history. Some of the interviews date back to 1972 and include interviews with narrators born as early as the 1860s. The Real Audio player is required for listening to the audio segments.
Votes for Women This digitized material represents a selection of the collections housed at the Women's Library at London Metropolitan University, and includes posters, photographs, postcards, badges, and other memorabilia relating to the British suffrage movement; brought online through the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS).
Vrouwendocumentatiecentrum De Feeks Dutch women's studies information centre specialized in grey literature. General information, online catalogue.
Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri at St Louis. Collection-level information on the women's history and Lesbian and gay collections.
Willa Cather Archive Digital editions of Cather texts and scholarship, a guide to her letters, biographies, digitized images, bibliography and resources for scholars and teachers. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Women and Gender in early Modern Wales: A Guide to Sources and Further Reading A list of general reference works, guides to manuscript collections in and outside the National Library of Wales, and secondary literature on various aspects of early modern life, such as marriage, sexuality, the family, legal status, work, crime, witchcraft, religion, education, writing, masculinity. Compiled by Simone Clarke and Michael Roberts, at the Department of History and Welsh History, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Women Artists Archives National Directory WAAND A web directory to archival collections of primary source materials by and about women visual artists and women's visual arts organizations since 1945, developed by the Rutgers University Libraries.
Women in History at the Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Links to descriptions of manuscript collections at the Clements Library that are relevant for the study of women's history and gender studies.
Women's History and Resource Center (WHRC) Washington, DC. Founded in 1984, the Women's History and Resource Center collects, preserves, interprets, and promotes the history of the GFWC and women volunteers. The WHRC documents the social and political contributions of GFWC clubwomen from 1890 to the present through the GFWC archives and related special collections and publications.
Women's History at the Wisconsin Historical Society Online reproductions of original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts and other primary sources in the holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Women's History Collections The Women's History Collections at Göteborg University Library are a special library for women's, men's and gender studies. The principal goals are surveying and cataloguing literature on gender issues and compiling and cataloguing manuscript material on women's history. New literature in the University Library is registered in the database KVINNSAM database, the most extensive information resource on women's studies and gender research in the Nordic countries, and in GENA a database of PhD-theses in Women's Studies, Men's Studies and Gender Research in Sweden.
Women's History Guide This guide describes the manuscript collections containing materials for women's history research in the Special Collections Department of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. Collections are described in full, even if only parts of them relate to the women's history.
Women's History Resources At the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University at Albany, State University of New York. See also the Human Sexuality and Gender Identity subject guide.
Women's History Sources: A Guide to Manuscripts and Archival Collections An indexed, online guide describing over 270 manuscript collections and approximately 30 bodies of Rutgers University records and related collections which pertain to New Jersey and American women and their status, concerns and activities from the late eighteenth century through the twentieth century.
Women's Library (London, UK). The former Fawcett Library. The Women's Library is a new cultural centre, housing the most extensive collection of women's history in the UK.
Women's Library, Turkiye The first and only women's library and information center in Turkey. General information in English.
Women's Services, First World War A Research Guide from the UK National Archives.
Women, Enterprise and Society A Guide to Resources in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library, Harvard Business School. This Web-based publication identifies materials in the Business Manuscripts Collection at Baker Library that document women's participation in American business and culture from the eighteenth through the twentieth century.
Womens Studies Resources in the Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH.
Working Class Movement Library Salford, England. The library has a number of significant collections on the history of working women including archives from the cooperative movement, the suffragettes and suffragists, women in the labour party and the feminist movement of the 1970s.
WOW! Worlds of Women! Worlds of Women - International Material in ARAB’s collections (WoW) is a project at ARAB to highlight and promote research on working women’s transnational relations. Through distribution of these works ARAB hopes to encourage international research and exchange.

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Lists of Archives and Libraries

Archival Sites for Women's Studies WSSLINKS. Comprehensive list of mainly American collections developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Archivi aderenti alla Rete Lilith The website of the Unione femminile nazionale has a list of links to women's archival institutions' websites in Italy and other online resources.
Australian Women’s Register The searchable-on-line Australian Women’s Register is a growing source of biographical data about Australian women and their organisations, with hyper-links to the archival repositories and libraries where their records are held and to other sources of information. It is part of the Australian Women's Archives Project (AWAP), established in 2000 by The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW). See also the Australian Women’s Archives Project – Showcase.
Genesis The Genesis project is a mapping initiative to identify and develop access to women's history sources in the British Isles. The database holds descriptions of women's history collections from libraries, archives and museums from around the British Isles. A list of web resources relating to the study of women's history, is also available.
H-Women Archival and Manuscript Collection Guides, finding aids and links to sites describing repositories in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland.
ida - Dachverband deutschsprachiger Frauen/ Lesbenarchive, -bibliotheken und -dokumentationsstellen (Germany, Austria) A directory of German-language lesbian/women's libraries, archives and documentation centres.
ida - Dachverband deutschsprachiger Frauen/ Lesbenarchive, -bibliotheken und -dokumentationsstellen (Switzerland, Luxembourg) A directory of German-language lesbian/women's libraries, archives and documentation centres.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Religious Archives Network A resource center and information clearinghouse for the history of LGBT religious movements; listed here for its Collections Catalog of research collections in the US and elsewhere of original sources from or about LGBT religious organizations or activists.
Red de Centros de Documentación y Bibliotecas de Mujeres Directory of women's libraries and documentation centres in Spain, from the Ayuntamiento de Barcelona. Centro Municipal de Información y Recursos para las Mujeres (CIRD).
Sources for Women's and Gender History in IALHI-Member Institutions Links to guides and other descriptions of source materials related to women's and gender history in archives, libraries, document centres, museums and research institutions specializing in the history and theory of the labour movement.
UTSA Uncovering Women's History in Archival Collections A geographic guide to WWW pages of archives, libraries, and other repositories, in and outside the US, that have primary source materials by and about women. From the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Women Information Network Europe WINE The network of women's libraries, archives and information centres in Europe.
Women's History Month (Library of Congress) Portal site featuring links to women's history materials in The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Women's History Project (Ireland) A project to survey and list sources relevant to the history of women in Ireland. Two major databases are available here for online searching. The Directory of Sources for the History of Women in Ireland contains information on collections relating to the history of women in Ireland from the earliest times to the present. Women in 20th-Century Ireland: Sources from the Department of the Taoiseach, 1922-1966 is the result of a survey that involved examining the files of the Department of the Taoiseach between the years 1922 and 1966.
Word on Women A Directory of Historical Records Collections Documenting the History of Women in Upstate New York.

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Last updated 20 February 2013