Fwd: April Ashley's Personal Papers: New Collection First Look

[Jackie Pease]

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From: Olive, Christopher <C.I....@ljmu.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Subject: April Ashley's Personal Papers: New Collection First Look
To:
Cc: Waters, Susannah <S.Wa...@ljmu.ac.uk>

Dear all,

I hope this finds you well. This email is being sent to you via the Culture Network, so I apologise if you have already been sent an invite to the below separately!

LJMU Special Collections & Archives are delighted to invite you to a First Look event for our newest collection: April Ashley's Personal Papers.

We're very excited to announce this recent acquisition, and we want to hear from our community to learn more about: what you want to see more of; what you want to happen next; and how we can work with you in the future. In particular we are very keen to scope working with potential community partners and demonstrate potential impact of the collection.

This 'first look' will include an open workshop with a large selection of original archive material belonging to Ashley to browse, followed by discussion. As the collection is very large and currently uncatalogued, it won't be possible to retrieve everything, but we will try to put out a good variety of material.

Her papers include: the legal records related to the landmark 1970 Corbett V Corbett case; personal and medical records related to her life as a prominent transgender figure from the 1950s onwards; and records of her successful career as a model and activist, among other papers.

19 Nov 14:00-16:00 or 21 Nov 10:30-12:30 (please indicate which in your RSVP)
Mount Pleasant Campus Library
29 Maryland Street
Liverpool
L1 9DE

The building is wheelchair accessible with blue badge parking, but do let me know if you have any specific access needs or concerns.

As this event is open to all audiences, please do feel free to pass it along to anyone you might feel is interested.

With many thanks and very best wishes,

Christopher.

Christopher Olive (he/him) Assistant Archivist LJMU Special Collections & Archives Mount Pleasant Campus Library, 29 Maryland Street, Liverpool, L1 9DE t: 01512313241 e: c.i....@ljmu.ac.uk enquiries email: arch...@ljmu.ac.uk Catalogue | Website | Exhibitions | Linktree | TikTok Chair of TAG LCR - The Archives Group for the Liverpool City Region

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