Record

Ref NoDM2123/4
TitleFeminist Archive South: Bristol City Council Women's Unit
DescriptionBristol City Council Women's Unit
Stored in 43 pamphlet boxes with WC on the outside. These are held in the order of the European Women's Thesaurus categories (ie. Life and Parenting) and then in number order. See below for any further listing available. They contain for the most part printed pamphlets on topics of interest dating from the 1970s to 1990s

See also Feminist Archive Topic Boxes 59-61

Lifestyle/Parenthood 1: mothering, childcare +
Lifestyle/Parenthood 2: mothering, childcare +
Lifestyle/Parenthood 3: mothering, childcare +
Lifestyle/Parenthood 4: mothering, childcare +
Lifestyle/Parenthood 5: mothering, childcare +
Lifestyle/Parenthood 6: caregiving
Lifestyle/Parenthood 7: single mothers +
Lifestyle/Parenthood 8: playschools
+ boxes catalogued in more detail (see below, October 2013)

Social Relations 1: Violence against women, sexual harassment, rape, pornography, female genital mutilation, self-abuse, child sexual abuse
Social Relations 2: Violence against women
Social Relations 3: Violence agains women, domestic violence
Social Relations 4: Ethnic minority groups
Social Relations 5: Homeless people
Social Relations 6: Equalities, Women's Subcommittee, 1992
Social Relations 7: Equalities, Community Development 1992
Social Relations 8: Equalities, Community Development 1992
Social Relations 9: Equalities, Community Development 1992
Social Relations 10: Lesbianism, Section 28

Health/Medicine 1: Well Women

Built Environment 1: Housing, public safety, town and country planning services
Built Environment 2: Services, public safety

Economics 1: Employment, equal opportunities policy, policy, minimum wage, housework, jobshare
Economics 2: Trade unions

Education/Training 1: Women returners, miscellaneous

History 1: Women's lives

Law 1: Prisons and crime policy, advocacy, maternity leave, labour law, social security

Visual/Performing Arts 1: Miscellaneous

Media 1: Miscellaneous

Recreation 1: Sport, leisure

Politics/Policy 1: National Association of Local Government Women's Committees, Local Authority Network National Commission
Politics/Policy 2: Structure of local government
Politics/Policy 3: Community Charge
Politics/Policy 4: NALGWC
Politics/Policy 5: Miscellaneous unsorted
Politics/Policy 6: EU directives
Politics/Policy 7: EOC [Equal Opportunities Commission]
Politics/Policy 8: Anti discrimination: local government, national government, United Nations
Politics/Policy 9: Disability
Politics/Policy 10: Older women
Politics/Policy 11: Women's Committees, GLC, Bristol, others outside UK
Politics/Policy 12: Women's Committees A-K
Politics/Policy 13: Women's Committees L-Z
Politics/Policy 14: Women's Committees: London boroughs
Politics/Policy 15: Women's Unit directories and handbooks
Politics/Policy 16: Women's days, festivals, marches, events
Politics/Policy 17: Women's groups, grants for women's groups

Lifestyles/Parenthood Box 1: 'Mothering and Childcare' Parental leave legislation 1988, Bristol Gingerbread newsletters Feb.-Nov.1988; National Childbirth Trust Bristol Branch Newsletters, 1988-1991; press cuttings, newsletters from childcare/nursery campaigns in London, Leeds, Oxford (London Nursery Campaign); Labour Party childcare policy for under fives, 1976; 1980-1992

Lifestyles/Parenthood Box 2: Childcare Economics, leaflets produced by local authorities on childcare issues including value of child benefit, Bristol Association for Neighbourhood Daycare (BAND); Workplace nurseries; Daycare Trust; North Tyneside Council on creches; Civil Service childcare provision; Bristol Homeplus; (includes multiple copies of some publications); 1980s-1990s

Lifestyles/Parenthood Box 3: 'Mothering and Childcare': leaflets produced by local authorities on childcare issues, including Bristol Association for Neighbourhood Daycare (BAND); London Nursery Campaign; TUC on under fives; Community Relations Commission; Leicestershire; Family Srvice Unit; local action groups; Nursery Action Group; Letterbox Library; childcare in Australia; London Council of Social Service; Institute of Personnel Management on company day nurses; 1970s-1980s

Lifestyles/Parenthood Box 4: 'Mothering and Childcare': leaflets produced by local authorities on childcare issues, including Bristol Association for Neighbourhood Daycare (BAND)GLC, Stirling District Council, Camden, Bristol Association for Neighbourhood Daycare (BAND); Workplace Nurseries Campaign; Daycare Trust/National Childcare Campaign; National Council for One Parent Families; European Parliament and UK Civil Service childcare policies;1980s-1990s

Lifestyles/Parenthood Box 5: 'Mothering and Childcare': leaflets produced by local authorities on childcare issues, including Southampton Council, London Childcare Network, GLC (Women's Committee 1982-1986), Bristol (ethnic minority play needs), Avon, Stirling; Child Poverty Action Group; photographs of Whitchurch Holiday Playscheme; National Council for One Parent Families; company policies; Equal Opportunities Commission; National Out of School Alliance; Daycare Trust

Lifestyles/Parenthood Box 7: 'Single Mothers': National Council for One Parent Families, Bristol One Parent Project; teenage pregancy; 1980s-1990s
Date1970s-1990s
FormatPrinted document
Extent43 boxes
Access ConditionsThese materials are held in Store and advanced notice is needed to access them
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