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These photos by Jean Taylor are of the Archives room in the Women's Liberation Building situated at 295 Victoria Street West Melbourne during the 1980s.
Old WL Building Archives Room Archives Room Archives Shelving
Victorian Women’s Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archives Inc
Association Incorporation Act 1981 no A0040374W
ABN 61 138 628 062
PO Box 168, Brunswick East Melbourne, Victoria 3057
phone: 03 9387 6610
email: vwllfa@gmail.com
 
The Archives

A new feature of this page is the ability to read a short biography of each person listed. The biographies currently available are shown by the links below. Each document is in Portable Document Format (PDF) and can be viewed and printed.

PLEASE NOTE: The copyright for all material on this site is held by the Victorian Womens' Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archives Inc.

If you wish to use any of this material, explicit permission must be obtained beforehand (refer to the contact details above).

Jump straight to the listing and the Search field.
To access these files you will need a PDF reader. Macintosh users - you will already have "Preview" installed. Windows users - if you do not have a PDF reader, you can download the installer (1.43MB) for a free, light and fast PDF reader from here.

To get a description of the material in each collection please click the link to access the UMA website (please note that not all of the collections have been listed as yet). The VWLLFA listing is in the second section of the page; this link lists the archives collection to date.

Please note all details regarding direct access to materials from UMA is done via the reference archivists in the Cultural Collections Reading Room, Level 3 Baillieu Library. This info is available from the Archives web site – opening hours etc. (including a map to locate the Baillieu Library itself).


Details regarding the VWLLFA Collections eg: Biographical notes and info on donors etc can (mostly) be found by the following:

  1. From the Archives web page click on “Collections Database”.
  2. On the bottom of the page type into the text box titled Search the Entire Database – “Victorian Womens Liberation” and a listing of the collection records will appear. Note that you need to include the quotes to get the correct listing.
  3. Further information can be found by clicking on the Details tag in each listed collection.

For quick access to the area you are looking for, you can use this Search Engine. The results will appear on a separate page. Note that ALL references will be returned.

This is a comprehensive list of all of the donations in the Victorian Women’s Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archives Inc collection housed at the
University of Melbourne Archives. The Archives includes donations from individual lesbian and feminist activists and material from lesbian and
feminist activist collectives, many of them now defunct.

NOTE: Each link below refers to a separate PDF file, which can be viewed and/or downloaded.

   

The copyright for all material on this site is held by the Victorian Womens' Liberation and Lesbian Feminist Archives Inc. (2009 - 2010)