Tag: history

Wigtown Community Festival 2010

By Nisha | Published 29th July, 2010

Last week Morag and I travelled to Wigtown to run an oral histories workshop at the annual community festival. We drew into Wigtown square around 7 o’clock, in time to see a game of Bowls taking place in the green, and, just a few metres away, local children spilling out of the library – a lovely introduction to rural town life…

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Callout: Second-wave feminism in NE Scotland, 1972-1990

By Nisha | Published 14th July, 2010

Glasgow Women’s Library needs your stories! Were you: Involved in Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp? Active in the socialist and feminists movements between 1972-1990? Active in the North-East of Scotland around the same time?

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West End Women’s Heritage Walk

By Laura | Published 20th June, 2010

Back by popular demand, this pioneering women’s heritage walk, developed by women historians at GWL, reveals a hidden history of the West End: pipe-smoking forewomen, revolting schoolmistresses, and the unique car made by and for women. An intriguing, inspiring insight into the hitherto unsung women who made the West End.

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The Lamplighter

By Helen | Published 10th June, 2010

A stunningly rich text with strong contemporary overtones.

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Wigtown Women’s Walk launched on International Women’s Day

By Morag | Published 15th April, 2010

Glasagow Women’s Library at Wigtown Women’s walk launch.

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Firebrand Women

By Laura | Published 30th March, 2010

GWL and WEA have teamed up to provide a programme of talks about women campaigners, this session is The Rent Strikes: the militant women who took on the slum land lords Taking place at St Mungo’s Museum.

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Firebrand Women

By Laura | Published 24th March, 2010

GWL and WEA have teamed up to provide a programme of talks about women campaigners, this session is Chartists: the ‘Brazen Faced Jades’ who formed the backbone of Britain’s first mass working class movement. Taking place at The People’s Palace.

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Firebrand Women

By Laura | Published 17th March, 2010

GWL and WEA have teamed up to provide a programme of talks about women campaigners, this session is Women and the Abolition Movement: the revolutionary women who fought against slavery Taking place at Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art.

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Firebrand Women

By Laura | Published 3rd March, 2010

GWL and WEA have teamed up to provide a programme of talks about women campaigners, this session is The Temperance Movement: the bold women who tackled the curse of the bottle. Taking place at St Mungo’s Museum.

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Firebrand Women

By Laura | Published 24th February, 2010

GWL and WEA have teamed up to provide a programme of talks about women campaigners, starting with Suffragettes & First Wave Feminism: the brave women who fought for women’s right to vote. Taking place at St Andrew’s in the Square.