@article{885785,
      recid = {885785},
      title = {Women's Labour League : conference reports and journals,  1906-1977.},
      pages = {1 online resource (59 manuscripts, 17,525  newspapers/periodicals).},
      note = {Date range of documents: 1906-1977.},
      abstract = {This collection consists of the conference proceedings,  annual reports, and publications from the Women's Labour  League and the Labour Party Women's Organization. The  Women's Labour League (WLL) was a UK-based feminist-driven  organization aimed at increasing women's involvement in  Parliament and other significant political forums. The  WLL's inaugural conference was held in 1906 in Leicester,  and it was attended by several prominent socialist women,  including Margaret MacDonald, Marion Phillips, and Margaret  Bondfield. The organization's primary goal was the  achievement of women's suffrage, but it also advocated for  the promotion of women's rights in the UK more generally.  In 1918, in an effort to increase its outreach, the WLL  dissolved as an independent institution and effectively  became a branch of the Labour Party, establishing itself as  the Labour Party Women's Organization. Much of the  collection relates to organizational conferences. Yearly  conference proceedings and annual reports from 1906 to 1918  provide insight into the operations and program work of the  Women's Labour League. The conference proceedings of the  subsequent Labour Party Women's Organization begin in 1919  and continue through its fifty-third conference in 1977,  after which it merged with the Labour Party's main  conference. The remaining files in this collection are  printed periodicals. There are twenty-eight issues of the  League Leaflet, offering insight into the Women's Labour  League from 1911 to 1913. The complete sixty-one volume run  of The Labour Woman, a magazine that emphasized the work of  the Labour Party Women's Organization, highlights the  efforts and contributions of women in the party from 1913  to the final issue in 1971. The proceedings, reports, and  periodicals in this collection provide exclusive insight  into the progression of the Women's Labour League from its  origins as a pressure or interest group in 1906 to its  affiliations, negotiations, and eventual merger with the UK  Labour Party in 1977.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/885785},
}