The Women’s History Archives is closed for summer holiday until August 10. Private Collections preserved at the Archives are available for viewing at the Icelandic National Collection. Contact: email: islandssafn (hjá) landsbokasafn.is, tel. +354 525 5630.
The National Library’s highlight of the month of July is the play Tengdamamma (Mother-in-law), by Kristín Sigfúsdóttir, thatwas published as a book in 1923 due to its popularity. It was written in 1920 and staged a year later in many places around Eyjafjörður and in Akureyri, as well as in Iðnó (Reykjavík Theatre Company) in 1923. It…
This summer Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir, poet, author and academic, and Boaz Yosef Friedman, visual artist will be diving into the archives of Kvennasögusafn (The Women’s History Archive) located within the National and the University Library of Iceland. They will be looking at how Rauðsokkahreyfingin (the Redstockings Movement) used drawings in their publications and editorial work…
Read more : Icelandic Student Innovation Fund: The use of drawings within the Red Stocking Movement
At the Women’s History Archives, we aim to make accessibly online most of our archival material that is available for research as well as making our catalogue as detailed as possible. In the year 2021 we made the following registrations available (in order of publication, the newest first): The collections of the Women’s History Archives…
The collection of Valgerður Lárusdóttir Briem (1885–1924) was donated to the Women’s History Archives in 1985. It contains eight handwritten periodicals of Húsmæðrablaðið (e. Housewives Magazine) from 1916. They were written by Valgerður for the members of the newly established housewives associations of Hrafnagilshreppur. Handwritten periodicals were quite common at the time, especially in the country side.…
The Women’s History Archives at the National and University Library is in a slow mode during the summer months but you can visit our exhibition Print, manuscripts, and private archives on the 1st floor of the library. “Print, manuscripts, and private archives. A selection from the holdings of the National and University Library of Iceland.” The…
Welcome to Iceland! You can go on THE WOMEN’S HERITAGE WALK IN REYKJAVIK at any time by downloading our brochure from our website. Best of times!
In Iceland we celebrate the Women’s Rights Day on June 19th and have since it was signed into law by our king on that day in 1915 that women 40 years and older could vote and run in national elections. You can read a detailed analysis of women’s suffrage in Iceland on our website. On…
The Women’s History Archives at the National and University Library of Iceland are proud to announce that it has received a grant from the Gender Equality Fund to open a website with digitized primary documents from the Red Stocking Movement (Rauðsokkahreyfingin) in Iceland that was active from 1970 until 1982. Members from the movement will also…
The National and University Library of Iceland is open with limitations due to the current assembly ban. A certain number of seats are available on each floor. The distance of at least 2 meters shall always be between individuals at all times. Opening hours: Weekdays 8:15-22:00, Saturdays 10:00-17:00 and Sundays 11:00-17:00. See more on the National…
