WOMEN'S ARCHIVE OF WALES, RECORDS

This collection contains a variety of records relating to women's history in Flintshire. It includes the will of Jane Davies of Waen Issa, Hope, 1793; records of Miss Florence Davies of Nerquis, who worked in China as a trainee doctor in the 1930s; records of the Flintshire Soroptomist group; and memoirs of two female members of the Price family of Bistre/Buckley.

The Women's Archive of Wales exists to promote the study, and to rescue and preserve the sources, of women's history in Wales. The organisation concentrates on an active process of tracking down, rescuing and conserving historical sources which throw light on women’s lives. They collect a broad range of archival, photographic and other material sources which illustrate the history and heritage of women in Wales, and their experience in a range of spheres including the domestic, political, religious, economic, cultural and social. They particularly seek diaries, scrapbooks, the minute books of women’s organisations, literary manuscripts, photographs and similar materials. Their collections are deposited in their name in existing record offices in Wales, and in the National Library of Wales, where they are properly cared for, and where they can be accessed by researchers subject to any restrictions put on a collection.

This collection has been arranged into sub-fonds to reflect the multiple depositors, under the fonds of Women's Archive of Wales; and items within the sub-fonds.

Data Protection Act restrictions will apply to any items less than 100 years old that contain personal information as defined by the Act.

Please order documents using the alternative reference number (where provided).

A hard copy of this catalogue is available at Flintshire Record Office.

These records were catalogued by Elizabeth Newman, Archivist, Flintshire Record Office, in April 2009.

Usual copyright restrictions apply.

All files in this collection have been deemed worthy of permanent preservation.

Further accruals are possible