Vera Douie Fellowship
at The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University
The Women’s Library is pleased to announce a visiting fellowship for
original research in The Women’s Library Collections. The fellow will
also arrange a public programme resulting from the research.
The fellowship is for £4,500 for a minimum of two months and does not
include travel or accommodation costs. The fellow will have use of a
carrel at The Women’s Library.
Applications are particularly encouraged for work:
On newly available collections such as the National Federation of
Women’s Institutes, the Josephine Butler Society pamphlet collection
which is currently being catalogued, The Girls’ Friendly Society, our
periodicals and zines collection.
Research related to our exhibition programme. During this period we
will also be working towards a major exhibition looking at debates
around prostitution from Josephine Butler onwards so applications
related to this area are also encouraged. We are also interested in
applications using collections related to women in education and girls
education.
Research on our visual materials collection and explorations which
will enhance their use for teaching.
However, applications relating to other aspects of the collections
will be given equal consideration.
The private donor of the fellowships has requested that applications
from women over 35 should be given priority.
The fellowship, which will be available each year for the following
three years, will commence in September 2005. It is open to anyone
currently not employed full time by a HE Institution and it is not
necessary to have a post graduate degree.
The fellowship is in conjunction with the Gender Interest Group at
London Metropolitan University.
How to Apply
1. Write a proposal of 500 words giving details of the research you want
to undertake and what kind of public programme might result and who it
is aimed at (public event, display, seminar, workshop etc)
2. Enclose your CV
3. Give the names of two referees
Please send your applications to Antonia Byatt, Director, The Women’s
Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, London, E1
7NT, or email to: [log in to unmask] The closing date is Friday
27 May 2005. Interviews will be held on Friday 24 June 2005.
Vera Douie became the librarian of the London National Society for
Women's Service at the Women's Service Library at Marsham St, London
between 1926 and her retirement in 1967. In this role she was the moving
force behind the collection that was the forerunner to the present
Women’s Library. She was active in the women's movement throughout her
life and was particularly involved in the Association for Moral and
Social Hygiene. During the Second World War she was a fervent campaigner
for equal rights and published 'The Lesser Half' on behalf of the
Women's Publicity Planning Association in 1943, examining the 'laws,
regulations and practices introduced during the present war, which
embody discrimination against women'. After the war, she also published
'Daughters of Britain: an account of the work of British women during
the Second World War' (1950). When she retired in 1967, she was awarded
the OBE for her life's work. She died in 1979.
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