Literature

Useful links

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Reading Lists

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Key Starters for Essays and Dissertations

Identify different sources of information and link to ebooks and other top sources

Text Archives

Finding Articles

Newspapers and Magazines

Films, TV, Radio and Drama Productions

Other Recommended Sources

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• Culture and Society Across Time Periods

• Empire, Decolonisation, Slavery and Abolition

• Gender Resources/Archives

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• Archives of Sexuality and Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940

Explore 20 collections of documents, including minutes of meetings and conferences, press releases, fliers, brochures, press clippings, US government memoranda and reports, private correspondence, surveys and photos.

Watch this quick introduction to the archive - please note we only subscribe to Part 1 which contains British material as well as coverage from North America.

• Gender: Identity and Social Change

Explore primary sources for gender history, women's suffrage, the feminist movement, the men's movement, the body, domesticity and the family. The records available include some from pressure groups giving details of 20th century lobbying and activism.

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• Routledge Historical Resources: History of Feminism

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

An extensive range of primary and secondary sources, plus thematic essays on multiple aspects of feminism from 1776 to 1928.

• Women's Suffrage Collection

Access a digitised collection of annual reports, pamphlets and newspapers held at the LSE but made available to everyone.