What is The Sybil Campbell Library?

The Collection, built up over seventy years by the British Federation of Women Graduates, contains some 8,000 items, including material relating to women's writing and history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, women's education and their personal libraries, auto/biography, women in wartime (including refugees).

We have reports and publications of the British and International Federations of University Women. The Library holds work of scholars who are BFWG Award Holders and BFWG Charitable Foundation Grant Holders.

The general material includes early twentieth century philosophy, literary criticism, poetry, travel, craft bindings and much more.

Early twentieth century material was donated by significant figures of the 1920s and 1930s, such as Sybil Campbell, Ivy Davison, Harold Laski, Eleanor Rathbone, Alys and Bertrand Russell, Caroline Spurgeon, Lytton Strachey, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, Virginia and Leonard Woolf.

We are grateful to the Pilgrim Trust for a grant for cataloguing the Library. The full catalogue is available at the Library and on-line. Access to the Library is by arrangement.

Click here for an Outline History of the Library.