Women's Library

The Women's Library
The Women's Library reading room in the LSE library
Location	Lionel Robbins Building, The London School of Economics and Political Science, 10 Portugal Street, Westminster, London, WC2A 2HD, England
Type	Library
Established	1926
Collection
Items collected	Books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, archives, pamphlets, drawings and manuscripts
Size	60,000 books and pamphlets 3,500 periodical titles 5,000 objects 500 personal and organisational archives 500 zines
Access and use
Access requirements	Open to anyone with a need to use the collections and services and those coming to see exhibitions
Other information
Website	The Women's Library

The Women's Library is England's main library and museum resource on women and the women's movement, concentrating on Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has an institutional history as a coherent collection dating back to the mid-1920s, although its "core" collection dates from a library established by Ruth Cavendish Bentinck in 1909. Since 2013, the library has been in the custody of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), which manages the collection as part of the British Library of Political and Economic Science in a dedicated area known as the Women's Library.