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Ref NoDM2123/1/Archive Boxes 1-16/Box 15
Alt Ref NoDM2123/1/Archive Boxes 15
TitleDora Russell Caravan of Peace: ‘Dora Russell’
Description[Of particular interest in this box is the folder containing a typescript account of the Caravan by Dora Russell’]

Grey folder: ‘Dora Russell Caravan of Peace Journey and Comment ‘We called on Europe’ script. Contains copy typescript ‘We called on Europe: the story of the Women’s Caravan of Peace 1958’, by Dora Russell. With manuscript corrections. Appears to be an account of events on the journey, including arrangements, people met and the like. 168 + 9 pages, [1980]

Black box file: ‘Dora Russell Correspondence and Maps’
Contains photocopies of some of the photographs. Letters to and from Katharine Tait (Daughter of Dora Russell), 1987. Discussion of receipt of some additional materials for the archive, and discussing move of archive to Amsterdam.

Correspondence concerning a Mabel Ridealgh who was a member of the Peace Caravan, 1982-1987

Correspondence between Dora Russell and members of the Feminist Archive concerning the deposit of materials relating to the Peace Caravan. Presumably this is the material now held in this Archive, 1984-1985.

General correspondence relating to Dora Russell, the Feminist Archive, and other similar topics, 1985-1997

List of some of the materials which came to the archive, dated JH [Joan Hammond] 31 October 1988.

Correspondence between Margaret Glover, Portrait Artist, and the Feminist Archive, concerning the possible purchase of a portrait of Dora Russell (painted in 1985), 1988.

Road map: Europe long distance roads; Berne, Switzerland; Kummerly + Frey, includes typescript Caravan route, n.d.

Map of the Balkans, Berne, Switzerland; Kummerly + Frey, n.d.

Foreign Itinerary from Dunkerque to Boulogne, produced by the RAC for Dora Russell, includes town plans and typescript route, n.d. [1958]

Two original leaflets produced to publicise the Women’s Caravan of Peace. One is labelled ‘West to East Women’s Caravan of Peace’, and signed by supporters. N.d.

Envelope containing marked map for France, publicity material in French and English, assorted notes; arrangements for a European March in 1961; Permanent International Committee of Mothers, Sofia, 20-22 February 1958 papers; typescript in German.

Black box file ‘Dora Russell and drawn posters and letters from various towns’. Contains five illuminated addresses received on the Peace Caravan in 1958.

From Ceska Lipa District, Liberec Region, Czechoslovakia; Hrusky; Basovciach; and Lovosice

‘…In a man’s world: the eclipse of woman’, Dora Russell, In Anarchy, 56 (vol 5, no. 10), October 1965.
‘Dora Russell, The Long Campaign’, New Humanist, December 1974
Date1958
FormatTypescript
Printed document
Map
Manuscript
Extent1 record management box
Access ConditionsThese materials are held in Store and advanced notice is needed to access them
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