The archive consists of diaries, correspondence, photographs and memorabilia relating to Holme's activities as a suffragette; her work with the Women's Volunteer Reserve and the Scottish Women's Hospital Unit during the First World War; her visits to and relief work in Serbia / Yugoslavia; and her personal life and friendships. Many items across the collection relate to her girlfriend Evelina Haverfield.
Holme , Vera Louise , 1881-1969 , actress and suffragette
GB 106 7VJH
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Fonds
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1900-c.1962
GB 106 8CPC
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Fonds
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2003-2008
This collection consists of items relating to Civil Partnership ceremonies in 2006: photographs, invitations, audio-visual recordings, celebration menus, registration forms, council registrar booklets. It also includes the participants' answers to a questionnaire about their civil partnership. The documented ceremonies and celebrations include those held in Kent (on International Women's Day, 2006); at Bromley Town Hall in Bow; in Hertfordshire and at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London. It also includes one folder of Civil Partnership ephemera.
As at 2008 the collection contains records donated by:
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Sarah Ingle and Carol Goulden
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Jan Pimblett and Meg Davis
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Bridget Leach and Susan Flanagan
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Susan Crane and Karen Newman.