Tag: Archives

Nicky Bird’s Unsorted Donations

After months of research in the Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) Archives, group discussions, individual interviews, and sound recordings, Nicky Bird is ready to present her new work: Unsorted Donations.

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Nicky Bird’s Unsorted Donations

After months of research in the Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) Archives, group discussions, individual interviews, and sound recordings, Nicky Bird is ready to present her new work: Unsorted Donations.

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GWL Open Doors

A chance to pop in to the library, see artefacts from the archive, find out about ways to get involved and see some screenings of second wave feminist testimonies from the collection.

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Making Space: Archive Hour

On why Glasgow Women’s Library is so unique, and how artist Nicky Bird is going to capture this…

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Strange requests made to archives

‘Photograph of Jesus’ a short animated film that takes the strange enquiries made to an image archive and creates a surreal and funny stopmotion collage that travels through the archive’s stacks. Mostly, we don’t get enquiries that are this strange, but somehow it seemed to ring a bell…

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Heritage Lottery Fund Grant

GWL is pleased to announce that the Library has been awarded a major grant by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The £410,000 grant will fund the creation of the first ever Women’s Archive in Scotland.

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