Women's History Month
A gathering of materials and resources to highlight women's voices from our various collections.
This selection of feminist historical badges comes from the Feminist Archive South, managed by our very own Special Collections! Do reach out to the team if you are interested in knowing more. Archive ref DM2123
New from Library Services is the Libby App! With access to free audiobooks and eBooks check out our Women's History Month collection, chosen by staff, of contemporary and historical fiction, non-fiction and poetry by female identifying writers.
BFI - Woman with a Movie Camera collection
As a Univeristy of Bristol student you have access to the British Film Institute's student subscription! When you sign in with your student details you can freely watch loads of films, including many films by female directors and writers. Their current collection 'Woman with a Movie Camera' is a celebration of work by female directors past and present. Some films form the collection include;
- Scrapper (2023) dir. Charlotte Regan
- The Eternal Daughter (2021) dir. Joanna Hog
- The Gleaners & I (2000) dir. Agnes Varda
- Daisies (1966) dir. Vera Chytilova
- God's Creatures (2022) dir. Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer
- Fish Tank (2009) dir. Andrea Arnold
University of Bristol 'Women's Firsts' Mini Online Exhibition
An online mini-exhibition has been curated to commemorate International Women's Day 2024, which features some of the ‘firsts for women’ at the University.
This has been produced as a central EDI Team and Special Collections collaboration. Staff and PGRs are able to view the exhibition on Sway.
Image shows some of the first female students, c.1910, archive ref. DM1657/2
Digital primary source collections for Women's History Month
Digital collection featuring documents which cover the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain, 1903-28, and the granting of women's suffrage in colonial territories, 1930-62.
Discover manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
This collection includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters.
Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South
Covering a century this collection highlights activism led by or for Women in the Global South
Gender: Identity and Social Change
This expansive collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage and the feminist movement.
An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's magazines.