Total Liberation': Feminism, Socialism and Red Rag (1972-1980)

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The project restores to view, analyses and assesses the contemporary resonance of Red Rag: a Magazine of Liberation (1972-1980). The doctoral thesis produced will form the most substantial account of this significant but largely forgotten feminist periodical to date, intervening into debates around contemporary feministtheory, periodical studies, women's history, labour history and cultural studies. Innovative training opportunities will equip the student with transferable skills-in digitization, database management, cataloguing, curating, grant writing, public engagement-tailored to support a future career in the museum, heritage orcultural sectors, or academia. The project will enhance the collections of the collaborating partner, the People's History Museum-an Arts Council Accredited National Portfolio Organisation with a Designated Collection that attracts 125,000 visitors per year (2018-2019)-by facilitating the completion of the cataloguing of Hilary Wainwright papers (ACC1478: 14 large boxes, 9 meters). The collaboration with supervisors and the student will deepen the PHM's own knowledge of the significance of its specialist collections. The project will build capacity for the future, attracting new, diverse users to the the PHM's in-house Labour History Archive and Study Centre (currently 1000 visitors per annum), via a filmed, free dayschool for activists, students, schoolteachers, academics, and the general public. It will support and enhance the PHM's track record in public educationaround the struggle against gendered and sexual oppression recently showcased at the award-winning, Heritage Lottery Funded exhibition, Never Going Underground: The Fight for LGBT+ Rights exhibition (51,943 visitors between 25 February and 3 September 2017). It will potentially benefit future students at the NWDTP HE institutions by forming a test case for PHM's Digital Asset Management System (DAMS), which aspires to open collections to new undergraduate users, with a pioneering, comprehensive online resource about 1970s feminism. It will consolidate and develop ongoing, mutually beneficial collaborations between the supervisors and PHM-which has included a successful AHRC Leadership Fellow (2016-17)-prefiguring a future application to secure full CDP status for the PHM in the next round.