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Scottish Trade Union Congress STUC archives are held at Glasgow Caledonian University Archives (GB1847 STUC) and contain material from the congress foundation in 1897, much of it relevant to the study of the women’s suffrage movement and campaign. The archive includes Parliamentary Minutes 1897-1923, Women Advisory Committee papers 1926-1961, and Congress annual reports from 1897, as well as photographs and ephemera. Website: www.gcal.ac.uk
Stirling Central Library Stirling Council’s central library has in recent years amassed a considerable holding of suffrage-related material, with copies of documents relating to the women’s campaign in Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannan (Classmark 941.36 Archive 7 and 8). The expanded collection presently consists of 232 source sheets, with the first section covering the Women’s Suffrage Campaign 1848-1914. Intriguingly, the very early first date, 1848, refers to an extract revealing that some women were allowed to vote in Bo’ness elections at that time. Further research required! Minute books of local town councils, as well as newspaper cuttings, are included in the archive. Militancy in the Stirling area is also covered. See Explanatory Note to Women’s Suffrage Movement, Alastair McLaren, 1993, Stirling Library. (Copy in WC) Copies of this material are also held at Stirling Archives and Stirling University Library (Res/BQ 41.36 CEN File 8). Website: www.stirling.gov.uk
The Watson Collection A private collection of suffrage memorabilia. Strong in contemporary postcards, photographs, early books, printed ephemera, newspaper cuttings, journals, including many unique items, such as Scottish ‘arson’ photographs and the only known copies in Scotland of the Suffrage Cookery Book and Ethel Moorhead's autobiographical Incendiaries. Materially generally available for inspection by arrangement. Gentle east coast bias, helping to raise the profile of women’s history in the east of Scotland. Contact: nwatson@tesco.net
The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University The Women’s Library, formerly the Fawcett Collection, has the most extensive collection of women’s history in the UK, and a vast archive of suffrage movement material and electronic resources (Classmark 324.62). Among its collections, the library holds the important papers of the Women’s Freedom League, annual reports of the WSPU, papers of the Edinburgh National Suffrage Society, the Scottish Federation of NUWSS, records of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals and individual papers relating to leading campaigners, such as Charlotte Despard, Teresa Billington-Greig, Edith How Martyn, all of whom figured prominently in Scotland, along with papers, letters and photographs relating to some of Scotland’s most prominent suffragists, including Eunice Murray. Visual materials include postcards, photographs, posters and badges. Website: www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomen's library
Archives of Suffrage Organisations
Edinburgh National Suffrage Society Annual reports. (The Women’s Library)
Glasgow Association of University Women Records, including correspondence on women’s liberation. (Glasgow University Archives, DC 044)
Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women’s Suffrage Minutes of meetings GWSAWS 1902-1933, now also on microfilm. (Mitchell Library, Glasgow)
Kilmarnock Women’s Suffrage Society Minutes of the Kilmarnock branch of the Scottish Federation of the NUWSS, 1911-1915. It includes a roll of members and details of committee membership. (Ayrshire Archives Centre, Ayr EAC/DC6)
Scottish Federation of Suffrage Societies Annual report for 1915. (The Women’s Library)
Scottish League for Opposing Women's Suffrage Annual Report, 1913-1914. Includes text of speeches, and details of 12 Scottish branches. (National Library of Scotland)
Shetland Women’s Suffrage Society Minute book of Shetland branch of NUWSS, 1909-1919. Includes constitution and rules of NUWSS in 1910. (Shetland Archives D.1/32)
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