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Scrapbook of press cuttings; the first 27 pages of this volume contain press cuttings from 1907 on women's suffrage, including on the Wimbledon by-election of that year. Cuttings on pages 27-119 may have been added at a later date and consist of cuttings from a press agency about women's war work in the First World War, 1916-1919.

This collection consists of press cuttings mainly from national newspapers (with some cuttings from regional and international press). The cuttings are arranged in albums in the following sections:

Album 1:

• Women's Liberation in the UK Vol 1: 1971-1973

Album 2:

• Women's Liberation in the UK Vol 2: 1974-1977

Album 3:

• Women's Liberation in the UK Vol 3: 1977-1991

• Women's Liberation Movement - General: 1972-1982

Album 4:

• Women's Liberation Movement - International 1971-1976

• Women's Liberation Book Reviews 1971-1976

Album 5:

• Women's Liberation USA 1969-1984

The albums contain many complete articles. The authors include Katharine Whitehorn, Jill Tweedie, Bel Mooney, Mary Stott, Fiona Baker, Germaine Greer, Anna Coote, Linda Christmas, Lynne Edmunds, Jane Alexander, Ronald Irving, Mary Holland, Brian Harrison, Jacky Gillott, Caroline Moorehead, Beryl McAlhone, Diana Shelley, Polly Toynbee, Arianna Stassinopolous, Tina Brown, Andrea Dworkin.

This collection consists of press cuttings from national and regional newspapers documenting the work of women during the First World War. The cuttings are arranged in albums under the following headings:

Album 1:

• Medical - Ambulance service, Doctors, Nurses, Hospitals

• Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) - Catering, Clerical, Driving, Horticulture, Leisure, Recruitment, Stable work

• Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) - Drivers, Mechanics, Personal Life

Album 1 also contains one page illustrating Mrs St Clair Stobart's Women's Convoy Corps, on service in the Balkans in 1913 during the Second Balkan War.

Album 2:

• Home Front - Munitions Industry, Land Girls

Album 3:

• Home Front - Public Services [alphabetically, from Baker - Window Cleaner], General

Album 4:

• General - Military Forces and Home Front.

This scrapbook consists of general press cuttings about the events of the Second World War.

Manuscript Jewish service book, undated: Benedictions.

Manuscript Mahzor containing Jewish festival prayers for the whole year according to the Italian rite, with some additional prayers and ceremonies. On the last two leaves there are signatures of censors: Jacob Geraldino, 1555; Caesar Bellicosus, undated; Camillo Jaghel, 1619; Antonio Franc Enrique, 1688.

Manucript Jewish service book [1887]: Siddur, rite of Sana (Yemen). Apparently copied from an original with superlinear vowel-points.

Manuscript volume, 15th century: Petrus Suchen, 'Reise In Das Heilige Land' (Journey in the Holy Land). The text is divided into 126 chapters, but 16 are wanting and four are partly missing, owing to the loss of folios.

The archive consists of a small notebook containing manuscript notes from books and lectures on subjects including women's suffrage, employment and legislation. The volume includes notes under the following headings:

'Women's Suffrage Debate 28 Feb 1908'; 'United Kingdom Hospitals - Conference University College London Apr 1908'; organisation of a Votes for Women event; 'Mrs Wolstenholme Elmy on Married Women's Property Act 1882'; 'Meetings at Queen's Hall, Ladbroke Hall'; 'Self Denial Week'; 'Miss M Brockenbury - The Educated Woman and the Vote' [report of speech]; 'Mrs Brownlow's Pamphlet - Women and Factory Legislation'; Australia: Minimum Wage, Victor Clark Labour Movement; America - Licensing systems, Machinery, Factory, Jewish Competition, women voters in Colorado, New Zealand, Wyoming; 'Housing Bill 1908'; speech by John Burns; 'Pauperism 1st quarter 1908' [statistics]; dates of legislation affecting women 1844-1897; Reform Bill; women's work - florists, acrobats, pattern makers, married women in factories, cotton trade, carding hooks and eyes, cigar trade; posts closed to women - Law, medicine, church, politics; women in Inspectorate - prisons, factory , schools; women's wages; 'Government as Employers'; sweated labour; Anti-sweating Demonstration Queen's Hall Jan 28 1908; women prisoners; employment of children; Married women's savings; women married to aliens; Married Women's Property Act 1882; Guardianship of children.

The volume also included the following loose inserts which have been removed and are held within the folder:

Press cuttings:

'Unemployment - Salford and the scheme for women', Manchester Guardian, 22 Jan 1909

'Child labour in Egypt', Manchester Guardian,15 Jul 1908

'Australia and women's suffrage', Manchester Guardian, 1 Feb 1910

'Women as Councillors - the narrow range of choice', Manchester Guardian, 22 Jan 1909

'Votes for Women - women voters', Manchester Guardian, 19 Jun c. 1910

'University Women Teachers - the vote a necessary leverage in their work' Manchester Guardian, c. 1910

'London's unknown Museums - special LCC survey', The Times, 11 Mar 1936

'The Sacredness of motherhood', Common Cause, 24 Mar 1910

'Infant mortality and working mothers', Common Cause, c. 1910

'Why women need the vote', Common Cause, 21 Mar 1910

'The equal standard', Common Cause, c. 1910

Loose page from a leaflet on equal pay in Australia.

Manuscript notes on working women

Manuscript notes on The Present Conciliation Bill

Manuscript notes on women prisoners and comparisons with conditions abroad

Manuscript notes on women as a moral force

Manuscript notes on two speakers: Miss Phillips and Miss Fothergill

Manuscript notes on the function of the state and women's work

Manuscript notes on infant deaths