The 50th anniversary exhibition of Kvennasögusafn will open on October 17, 2025

WE ARE MANY is an exhibition of the Women's History Archives collection, held to mark the archive’s 50th anniversary. The theme...

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Scrapbooks from Vigdís Finnbogadóttir's 1980 presidential bid are now available for digital browsing

Scrapbooks from Vigdís Finnbogadóttir's 1980 presidential bid are now available for digital browsing. These scrapbooks were donated to Kvennasögusafn (the Women's History...

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Summer Holiday

The Women's History Archives are closed for the summer holidays. We'll be back up on August 6.  Until then you can browse...

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White Ribbons in Iceland celebrates 130 year!

The Women's History Archives (Kvennasögusafn) wishes to congratulate Hvítabandið (the White Ribbon) on their 130th year since their foundation, making them...

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The Women's History Archives's founding directory

The Women's History Archives was founded on January 1, 1975 by three women: Anna Sigurðardóttir, Else Mia Einarsdóttir and Svanlaug Baldursdóttir. It...

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Nordic Gender Fund: Deadline 15 November

The call for applications to the Nordic Gender Fund is open for a little while longer. The purpose of the fund...

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The Day Iceland Stood Still - screening 24 October

We can‘t wait to watch with you the documentary „The Day Iceland Stood Still“ about the Women‘s Day Off in 1975....

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Summer Leave

Kvennasögusafn (the Women's History Archives) will be closed 8.-19. July due to summer leave. During that period it will be possible...

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Highlight of the month: Kristín Vídalín Jacobson´s book of poetry

This month there are 160 years since the birth of Kristín Vídalín Jacobson, the founder and first chairman of the women’s...

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Highlight of the month: Hringurinn

Hringurinn, a Women’s Society in Reykjavík, celebrates its 120th anniversary on January 24th. It is a non-profit charity organization established in...

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Slogan Workshop for the Women's Strike 2023

19 October 2023, 7-9 PM   At the National and University Library (Arngrímsgata 3) with the Icelandic Drawing Center. Women and non-binary persons...

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The Angry Girl

The highlight of the month is a drawing from the Redstocking Movement’s archive, which is preserved at The Women's History Archives....

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Summer Holiday

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...

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Highlight of July

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...

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Icelandic Student Innovation Fund: The use of drawings within the Red Stocking Movement

This summer Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir, poet, author and academic, and Boaz Yosef Friedman, visual artist will be diving into the archives...

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New catalogue registrations online 2021

At the Women’s History Archives, we aim to make accessibly online most of our archival material that is available for research...

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Highlight of the month

The collection of Valgerður Lárusdóttir Briem (1885–1924) was donated to the Women’s History Archives in 1985. It contains eight handwritten periodicals...

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Want to visit us during the summertime?

The Women's History Archives at the National and University Library is in a slow mode during the summer months but you...

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THE WOMEN’S HERITAGE WALK IN REYKJAVIK

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...

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Women's Rights Day - June 19th

In Iceland we celebrate the Women's Rights Day on June 19th and have since it was signed into law by our...

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Gender Equality Fund

The Women's History Archives at the National and University Library of Iceland are proud to announce that it has received a...

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Now open for visitors

The National and University Library of Iceland is open with limitations due to the current assembly ban. A certain number of...

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Closed for visitors

Due to governmental restrictions the National and University Library, along with the Women's History Archives and other entities within it, is closed...

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Opening of website Huldukonur

Huldukonur, a website dedicated to queer women's history in Iceland before 1960, was formally opened on the 10th of January 2020.  The website...

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Annual Reports 2001-2019

Annual reports from the Women‘s History Archives from 2001 until 2019 are now available in Icelandic on our website. Annual reports...

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Digital Catalogues

Our new website opened this summer and as of yet there are 179 digital catalogues from private people or entities accessible...

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The Longest Love Letter

A new donation found its way to the Women‘s History Archives earlier this year, that of Guðrún Lárusdóttir (1880–1938), the second...

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Summer Holiday

Due to summer holiday, the offices of the Women’s History Archives are closed until August 4. Inquires will be answered after...

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Members of the Women's Alliance assist the Women's History Archives

On the 28th of February 2020 the Women's History Archives hosted an event in collaboration with Sæunn Ólafsdóttir, masters student in...

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Highlight of the month at The National Library

Highlight of the month at the National Library of Iceland in January 2020 came from the collection of The Women's History...

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The 5th of December - biannual meeting

On the 5th of December The Women's History Archives held their biannual morning coffee, in collaboration with The Icelandic Women's Rights...

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