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New programme available to download NOW!
The new What’s On at Glasgow Women’s Library is available to download now. This programme is packed full of activities, courses and events. There is also information about the library, our various projects and how you can join for free!
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What’s On at the Library
Our new programme of events is out on 1 February 2012. It is jam packed full of fantastic activities across Scotland including things to do for International Women’s Day in March.
New Volunteer Opportunity in Dumfries
Reading and talking about books in a supportive group can improve well being, improve skills and even be inspirational. Could you help the library’s national lifelong learning programme develop a reading circle for women in the Dumfries area? GWL has a range of national resources for women, including a satellite book collection in the [...]
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Latest volunteering opportunity…
Are you interested in promoting women’s wellbeing and encouraging them to celebrate their lives and share their stories with others? We are looking for volunteers to help with our new Personal History Tours project aimed at women in Castlemilk and the Gorbals. This project will support 20 women to create personal history tours in their [...]
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Limited edition prints and bags available in our shop
Looking for a unique gift for the feminist reader in your life? We have a limited number of hand painted and screenprinted canvas bags and limited edition risographs available in our shop, created by curator Kitty Anderson and artists Anne-Marie Copestake, Kate Davis, Rachel Lowther and Lorna Macintyre.
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Tagged artist, Bags, Kate Davis, Kitty Anderson. Anne-Marie Copestake, Limited Edition Print, Lorna Macintyre, Rachel Lowther, shopping, Virginia Woolf
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Wigtown Women’s Walk Podcast now free to download from GWL
Wigtown Women’s Walk group have now been active for almost three and a half years. This group of dedicated volunteers from the local community have accomplished a lot with support and advice from NHS Dumfries and Galloway , Dumfries and Galloway Council, Glasgow Women’s Library – and plenty of tea, coffee and cake from the [...]
Support GWL as you shop
It’s coming to that time of year when you might be considering shopping online more than usual. If nothing else, so you can avoid the crowded shops and umpteenth hearing of “Sleigh Ride” and “White Christmas”! So did you know that you can raise money for Glasgow Women’s Library when you shop online without spending [...]
She sells ‘She Settles in the Shields’…
She Settles in the Shields provides a unique opportunity to meet the women who travelled to Scotland from all over the world, in search of family, love and security. Published by Glasgow Women’s Library, this book is now available to buy in the Library or online for just £9.95*.
Her-story: Oral Histories from Glasgow Women’s Library
Glasgow Women’s Library has gathered stories of women’s lives for many years. As this resource grows, you will find a whole range of material to inform, inspire and entertain, from ground breaking campaigning women to the details of ordinary women’s lives. Click on the links below to sample some of the stories we have collected [...]
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Joining the National Lifelong Learning Team
Hi, my name is Eleftheria, but most people here call me Ellie. (I hope my mum will never read that – she hates it when people change my name!) I come from Thessaloniki in Greece and I’ve lived in Glasgow for three and a half years now. I have a degree in Information and Library [...]
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