Women's History Month

A gathering of materials and resources to highlight women's voices from our various collections.

New from Library Services is the Libby App! With access to free audiobooks and eBooks check out our Women's History Month collection, chosen by staff, of contemporary and historical fiction, non-fiction and poetry by female identifying writers.

BFI - Woman with a Movie Camera collection

As a Univeristy of Bristol student you have access to the British Film Institute's student subscription! When you sign in with your student details you can freely watch loads of films, including many films by female directors and writers. Their current collection 'Woman with a Movie Camera' is a celebration of work by female directors past and present. Some films form the collection include;

  • Scrapper (2023) dir. Charlotte Regan
  • The Eternal Daughter (2021) dir. Joanna Hog
  • The Gleaners & I (2000) dir. Agnes Varda
  • Daisies (1966) dir. Vera Chytilova
  • God's Creatures (2022) dir. Saela Davis and Anna Rose Holmer
  • Fish Tank (2009) dir. Andrea Arnold

Digital primary source collections for Women's History Month

Digital collection featuring documents which cover the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain, 1903-28, and the granting of women's suffrage in colonial territories, 1930-62. 

Perdita Manuscripts  

Discover manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries 

This collection includes the immediate experiences of approximately 500 women, as revealed in over 100,000 pages of diaries and letters.

Women and Social Movements: Development and the Global South 

Covering a century this collection highlights activism led by or for Women in the Global South

Gender: Identity and Social Change 

This expansive collection offers sources for the study of women's suffrage and the feminist movement.

Women’s Magazine Archive  

An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's magazines.