AMC / WAW Collections held in West Glamorgan Archive Service
West Glamorgan Archive Service, County Hall, Oystermouth Road, Swansea SA1 3SN
Tel: 01792 636589
Fax: 01792 637130
Email: westglam.archives@swansea.gov.uk
Website: http://www.swansea.gov.uk/westglamorganarchives/
Papers of Activists in the South Wales Women’s Liberation Movement, and Women’s Peace Movement, 1970-1996.
Deborah Checkland Collection
Includes material from Swansea Women’s Centre,WLM newsletters and journals, conference papers etc.
![[Click for full-sized image]](../../../images/thumbs/socialist_woman.jpg "Click for full-sized image") | Socialist Woman, cover, Summer 1974 |
![[Click for full-sized image]](../../../images/thumbs/west_glam_archives_006.jpg "Click for full-sized image") | Poster for ‘Smiling and Splendid Women’, showing of video made by Swansea Women’s History Group, 26.7.85 |
Jenny Lynn Collection
Includes material relating to WLM in Swansea in 1970s, discussion papers, conference papers etc. relating to activities in South Wales and wider women’s movement.
![[Click for full-sized image]](../../../images/thumbs/proposal_for_womens_centre.jpg "Click for full-sized image") | Part of letter to Swansea City Council requesting consideration be given to providing a Women’s Centre in the city. February 1975 |
Ursula Masson Collection
Includes newsletters, leaflets, correspondence etc. relating to peace movement, Swansea Women’s Centre, feminist issues in education, politics and history.
![[Click for full-sized image]](../../../images/thumbs/west_glam_archives_019.jpg "Click for full-sized image") | Poster for showing of Swansea Women’s History Group Video, Back of the Front Line, September 1984 |
Alison Scouller Collection
Includes newsletters, newspapers cuttings, and other material relating to the WLM in Swansea, and wider feminist issues.
![[Click for full-sized image]](../../../images/thumbs/wlm_socialist_poster.jpg "Click for full-sized image") | Poster for Welsh Socialist Feminist Conference, June 1976 |
Denise Lavis Collection
Collection contains photographs, newspaper cuttings, badges relating to Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, and other CND material.
![[Click for full-sized image]](../../../images/thumbs/west_glam_archives_007.jpg "Click for full-sized image") | Cover of scrapbook, including attached badges, about activities in connection with Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp |
Also in West Glamorgan Archive Service
West Wales Labour Women’s Advisory Council
Minute books 1937-42 and 1942-1957
![[Click for full-sized image]](../../../images/thumbs/labour_minute_book_2.jpg "Click for full-sized image") | West Wales Labour Women's Advisory Council, start of Minutes of Annual Meeting,March 1942, from minute book. |
Paulette Pelosi Collection
A collection of albums kept by women from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
![[Click for full-sized image]](../../../images/thumbs/scrapbook.jpg "Click for full-sized image") | Illustration from autograph album, signed RR James 4.3.14. Note badge on tie reads 'Votes for Women'. This illustration was apparently frequently copied in autograph books and similar at the time. Owner of album unknown. |
The Val Feld Collection
This extensive collection of material belonging to the late Val Feld, was given to the Archive by her family and friends and with their agreement, has been deposited in West Glamorgan Archives. AMC / WAW and the depositors are currently working with West Glamorgan Archives to sort and catalogue the collection before making it available for public use. We will keep you informed of progress.