Digital Archives

• Big Flame – “This page provides complete information on all Big Flame publications available on the internet.”
• Leftove.rs Archive – many copies of feminist magazines including the full run of Spare Rib
• Red Rag – a Marxist feminist magazine. Fully digitised
• Scarlet Women – “the newsletter of the socialist current within the women’s liberation movement.”
• Shocking Pink archive on Grass Roots Feminism (Shocking Pink) (Magazine archive, 1981-1982 and 1987-1992)
• Shifra: a Voice for Jewish Feminists – “Founded in 1984, ‘Shifra’ magazine gave a voice to Jewish Feminists.”
• Socialist Woman – published by the International Marxist Group.
• Spare Rib map at the British Library – “The Spare Rib map makes visible the extensive network of ‘second-wave’ feminist activity that took place across the UK from the 1970s through to the early 1990s.”
• Trouble and Strife “This section [of the website] contains an archive of material previously published in the print version of Trouble & Strife.”
• Women’s Voice – the women’s magazine of the International Socialists (later the Socialist Workers’ Party). Contains 35 issues of series 1 and the 65 issues of series 2.

Archives

• The Women’s Library collection at LSE tells the story of the campaign for women’s rights and women’s equality from the beginnings of the suffrage movement to the present day.
• The Feminist Library is a large collection of Women’s Liberation Movement literature based in Peckham, London.
• Feminist Archive North (FAN) was created in the 1980s, when some material from the Feminist Archive South (below) was relocated to the North of England.
• Feminist Archive South (FAS) is the Southern Branch of the Feminist Archive, based in Special Collections at the University of Bristol.
• Glasgow Women’s Library is the only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s lives, histories and achievements, with a lending library, archive collections and innovative programmes of public events & learning opportunities.

Sister Projects

• The Business of Women’s Words “explores the dramatic story of the feminist publishing revolution that unfolded during the UK Women’s Movements [WLM] of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, and their legacies for social movement inspired creative industries today.”
• Feminist Libraries and Archives (FLA) Network is a network which is building connections, knowledge and solidarity between an increasing number of libraries and archives which hold material dedicated to feminists and women, their lives and histories.
• Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism and the Media is a digital exhibition developed by the International Standing Working Group on Medialization and Empowerment (ISWG) research group.
• Frauen Kultur is an online resource archive for second wave feminist texts written between 1965-1995.
• HOWL – HOWL stands for ‘History of Women’s Liberation’. The main aim of HOWL is to collect and publish the memories and stories of feminists involved in any of the many layers of the UK Women’s Liberation Movement.
• IFTE Network – “The Intersections, Feminism, Technology & Digital Humanities network (IFTe) addresses a critical challenge in contemporary society and culture: the gender imbalance in computational practices and systems.”
• Nottingham Women’s History Group aims to celebrate, promote and research the contribution made by women to Nottingham’s history.
• Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group (PPCRG) researches periodicals and print culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Based at the English department of Nottingham Trent University and co-directed by Dr Catherine Clay and Professor Andrew Thacker.
• Striking Women is an educational resource for KS3 and 4 developed as part of the project ‘Striking Women: South Asian workers’ struggles in the UK labour market from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
• Revolutionary Papers is a an international, transdisciplinary research and teaching initiative on anticolonial, anti-imperial and related left periodicals of the Global South. It includes over forty university-based researchers, as well as editors, archivists, and movement organizers from around the world. The initiative looks at the way that periodicals—including newspapers, magazines, cultural journals, and newsletters—played a key role in establishing new counter publics, social and cultural movements, institutions, political vocabularies and art practises.
• Transnational ‘Anti-Gender’ Movements and Resistance: Narratives and Interventions is a “new research network [that] maps the narrative building blocks – the political grammars, conceptual vocabularies, rhetoric, figures, and temporalities – of both ‘anti-gender ideology’ interventions and the political struggles and solidarities engendered in resistance.”

Contemporary Zines

• Aghh! zine is created in the heart of Brighton, UK. A safe space to discuss subjects that are considered taboo or not mainstream
  
• Amaliah.com is dedicated to amplifying the voices of Muslim women.
  
• Ashamed zine is an award-nominated independent zine for and by people of colour.
  
• Bad Form is a books magazine. That means we write a lot about books – everything
  from book reviews, to reading lists, to opinion pieces about the publishing industry.
  
• Black Ballad exists to help every black woman realise how she can change her world through every click she makes and every conversation she has.
  
• BRICKS magazine is a London-based independent print publication and online platform exploring social-political issues within fashion, music, arts and culture.
  
• Burnt Roti is a South Asian lifestyle magazine dedicated to showcasing the best and brightest in the community.
  
• sweet-thang zine is an independent arts and literary zine celebrating work by Black women and non-binary Black folks.
  
• ‘Them, All supports feminist, queer and antiracist derivations and deviations of reproductive labour AT THE LEVEL OF the word, sentence, string, command line, stanza, interface and page.’
  
• Tough Cookie is a zine to amplify marginalised voices. Raising awareness on important issues. Smashing stigma page by page. Art as activism.