Wednesdays 11am - 5pm
Thursdays 11am - 5pm
Fridays 11am - 5pm
The Feminist Library
The Sojourner Truth Community Centre
161 Sumner Rd, Peckham, London SE15 6JL
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The Feminist Library was founded in 1975, at the height of the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM), a time of intense political campaigning and lively collective organising. At the time it was called Women’s Research and Resources Centre. It was set up by a group of women concerned about preserving the writings and the knowledge of the Women’s Liberation Movement as a space for women to organise, agitate, network and share ideas in a clearly feminist space.
The library is not only a large archive collection of feminist literature, particularly Women’s Liberation Movement materials dating from the late 1960s to the 1990s but also an autonomous feminist community space.
Their non-fiction collection consists of about 5,000 books dating from 1900 to the present day. The collection is very strong in the areas of the arts, politics and the Women’s Liberation Movement, women’s history, and mental and physical health. They also have about 2,500 works of fiction from all around the world. Their poetry collection consists of some 500 publications. An estimated 1,500 periodicals titles are represented. They date from the late 1960s to the present day and they occupy about 85 metres of library shelving. The Library also has a small but growing collection of zines.