April Ashley's Personal Papers: First Look at the New Collection
Fri 21 Nov
|Mount Pleasant Campus Library
You're invited to take a first look at Liverpool John Moores University Archives newest collection: April Ashley's personal papers.
Time & Location
21 Nov 2025, 10:30 – 12:30
Mount Pleasant Campus Library, 29 Maryland St, Liverpool L1 9DE, UK
About the Event
JMU Special Collections & Archives are delighted to invite you to a First Look event for our newest collection: April Ashley's Personal Papers.
They're very excited to announce this recent acquisition, and want to hear from our community to learn more about: what we want to see more of; what we want to happen next; and how the archives can work with us in the future.
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 the archival staff and volunteers 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…