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		1 Read, Relax, Recharge! Read, Relax, Recharge! Badges of Honour Badges of Honour 1st May, 2013 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Join us for the launch of our exciting new Heritage Lottery funded project, ‘Badges of Honour’. Clydebank Women’s History Group Clydebank Women’s History Group 1st May, 2013 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm This ongoing course will develop your skills in researching local women’s history and is suitable for beginners and experienced alike.	2	3	4 Clydebank Women’s History Group CANCELLED! West End Women’s Heritage Walk CANCELLED! West End Women’s Heritage Walk 4th May, 2013 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm This pioneering women’s heritage walk reveals a hidden history of the West End of Glasgow: pipe-smoking forewomen, revolting schoolmistresses, and the unique car made by and for women. A unique and inspiring insight into the hitherto unsung women who made the West End.	5
6	7	8 CANCELLED! West End Women’s Heritage Walk Clydebank Women’s History Group Clydebank Women’s History Group 8th May, 2013 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm This ongoing course will develop your skills in researching local women’s history and is suitable for beginners and experienced alike.	9 Clydebank Women’s History Group Read, Relax, Recharge! Read, Relax, Recharge! 9th May, 2013 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Are you a book lover? Or maybe you want to get back into reading again after a long break and don’t know where to start? Our friendly read-aloud group, led by Magi Gibson and Librarian, Wendy Kirk, offers the perfect chance to relax and…	10	11	12
13	14	15 Read, Relax, Recharge! Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland Training: EdinburghSOLD OUT Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland Training: EdinburghSOLD OUT 15th May, 2013 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm These training sessions will introduce you to the Women of Scotland website which has now logged the stories of over 300 memorials to women.	16 Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland Training: EdinburghSOLD OUT Read, Relax, Recharge! Read, Relax, Recharge! 16th May, 2013 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Are you a book lover? Or maybe you want to get back into reading again after a long break and don’t know where to start? Our friendly read-aloud group, led by Magi Gibson and Librarian, Wendy Kirk, offers the perfect chance to relax and…	17	18 Read, Relax, Recharge! POSTPONED! Museums at Night: Witches & Wicked Women POSTPONED! Museums at Night: Witches & Wicked Women 18th May, 2013 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Do you love things that go bump in the night and staying up late watching scary movies? Join the GWL team for our first ever Museums at Night event which is sure to be spine-tingling! Come for a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum with…	19 POSTPONED! Museums at Night: Witches & Wicked Women Women of the Necropolis Women of the Necropolis 19th May, 2013 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Experience this fantastic women’s history walking tour that digs the dirt on Victorian society, unearths women’s achievements and exhumes the history of some of the women buried in the Glasgow Necropolis.
20	21	22 Women of the Necropolis Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland Training: Portree Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland Training: Portree 22nd May, 2013 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm In partnership with WEA women at work: Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland Who are the women that helped build Scotland? How are they remembered?	23 Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland Training: Portree Read, Relax, Recharge! Read, Relax, Recharge! 23rd May, 2013 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Are you a book lover? Or maybe you want to get back into reading again after a long break and don’t know where to start? Our friendly read-aloud group, led by Magi Gibson and Librarian, Wendy Kirk, offers the perfect chance to relax and…	24	25	26
27	28	29	30 Read, Relax, Recharge! Read, Relax, Recharge! Read, Relax, Recharge! 30th May, 2013 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Are you a book lover? Or maybe you want to get back into reading again after a long break and don’t know where to start? Our friendly read-aloud group, led by Magi Gibson and Librarian, Wendy Kirk, offers the perfect chance to relax and…	31

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