Due to governmental restrictions the National and University Library, along with the Women’s History Archives and other entities within it, is closed for visitors for the foreseeable future. The office continues to operate so please do not hesitate to contact us. Once the Library will open its doors again we will continue our usual operations and…
Huldukonur, a website dedicated to queer women’s history in Iceland before 1960, was formally opened on the 10th of January 2020. The website is the result of extensive research and documentation of sources that began in 2017. It is meant to be an information site for members of the public, a first stop for researchers and…
Annual reports from the Women‘s History Archives from 2001 until 2019 are now available in Icelandic on our website. Annual reports from before 2001 are available to view at our office. Additionally there are information on the activities of the archives in annual reports from the National and University Library from 1996. Furthermore, some of…
Our new website opened this summer and as of yet there are 179 digital catalogues from private people or entities accessible in Icelandic. A complete list can be viewed here. Among the private collections now accessible is the one of Þorbjörg Björnsdóttir (1919–1987) that contains a single diary from when she was nineteen years old…
A new donation found its way to the Women‘s History Archives earlier this year, that of Guðrún Lárusdóttir (1880–1938), the second woman parliamentarian and writer, and of her husband Sigurbjörn Á Gíslason (1876–1969). In December 1900 the couple was secretly betrothed and living in separate countries. The then twenty-year-old Guðrún asked her fiancé to send…
Due to summer holiday, the offices of the Women’s History Archives are closed until August 4. Inquires will be answered after that period. To view private collections please phone our offices and then they will be made available at the Icelandic Museum’s reception on the first floor of the National Library after confirmation of the…
On the 28th of February 2020 the Women’s History Archives hosted an event in collaboration with Sæunn Ólafsdóttir, masters student in Museum Studies at the University of Iceland. Sæunn carried through the substantial task of cataloguing the photographs that were donated along with the archives of the Women’s Alliance to the Women’s History Archives in…
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Highlight of the month at the National Library of Iceland in January 2020 came from the collection of The Women’s History Archives. It is the oldest document preserved at The Women’s History Archives. It is signed by Benedikt Vigfússon at Hólar in Hjaltadalur on the 31st of January 1838 and documents his donation of the…
On the 5th of December The Women’s History Archives held their biannual morning coffee, in collaboration with The Icelandic Women’s Rights Association. The meeting began at eight in the conference room of The National Library and was well attended. Ragnhildur Hólmgeirsdóttir from The Women’s History Archives opened the meeting. Arnheiður Steinþórsdóttir, student at the University…
