New Exhibit/Book: War Correspondent

War Correspondent: Reporting Under Fire Since 1850
Imperial War Museum North, May 28, 2011 - January 2, 2012

This is the UK's first major exhibition about British war correspondents. The slideshow of photographs from the exhibition includes images of Kate Adie, Martha Gellhorn, and Clare Hollingworth. The book that accompanies the exhibition includes more than 200 illustrations.


Related Sources
See Kate Adie's autobiography, The Kindness of Strangers (Headline, 2002), and Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn (New York: H. Holt, 2006). Hollingworth recalls the Scoop of the Century (BBC) on the MyCentury site, and is featured in Women War Correspondents, The Telegraph, July 12, 2010.

New Database - British women's struggle for suffrage

The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) opened a new database about British women's struggle for suffrage. The Women's Library Suffrage Collection, housed at London Metropolitan University, is available in digitized form here: http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/WLS. The collection includes posters, postcards, photographs, and images of material objects from the Women's Library. There is a separate collection of suffrage banners and associated artwork available here: http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/FSB. The vast holdings of the Women's Library are not all available digitally, but these online collections are substantial and offer excellent and varied visual materials.

Digital Archives about French Feminism

Just a couple of hours outside of Paris researchers looking for material about French feminism will find an excellent collection of materials at the Centre des Archives du Féminisme, housed at the University of Angers. For those who cannot make it to Angers but would like to access digital sources, the website offers a collection of online exhibits and digital documents, as well as a searchable guide to sources: http://www.archivesdufeminisme.fr/

The website is in French.