Women Listening To Women Archive At Bishopsgate

In 2023, the archive developed from our Women Listening to Women Oral History Project was given a permanent home at Bishopsgate Archive in London. 

The archive includes oral histories, administrative papers, ephemera, photographs and logbooks relating to Bristol Crisis Service for Women (BCSW) and Self Injury Support (SIS) – the previous names of our organisation before we became SIFT in 2025.  

Oral history audio files and transcripts which were recorded as part of the ‘Women Listening to Women’ project make up part of the archive, as well as papers relating to BCSW projects, papers collected by Fiona Macaulay, administrative papers, helpline service records and admin, papers relating to helpline volunteers and papers relating to training, workshops and conferences from 1974 to 2022. 

The archive is a key step in preserving our 40-year history, making the wealth of knowledge and experience from the founding and development of the organisation available to future generations, current researchers and other interested people. 

This material is kept in offsite storage so will need to be pre-ordered 7 days before consultation. For more information please email [email protected]. 

You can also listen to the ‘Gentle Activism’ podcast that was created in 2021 and turned into a podcast as part of the Women Listening to Women project, and won the Community Radio Award in 2022. Click here to listen on Spotify.