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 welcomed for research into newly catalogued collections
as well as other areas of The Women’s Library’s collections. The
Library and Archive Catalogues can be searched online at
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/searchthecollections/
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 two
years, will commence in October 2006. 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 June
9th 2006. Interviews will be held on Monday July 17th 2006.
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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