Tag: Scotland

Celebrating IWD in Dumbarton

By Nisha | Published 8th March, 2011

The National Lifelong Learning team are heading to Dumbarton for International Women’s Day 2011. We are going to be holding a stall at an event organised by West Dunbartonshire Women Against Violence Partnership.

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Making Space Discussion Event

By Nisha | Published 3rd February, 2011

Please note: The library will be closed on Thursday 3rd February between 12.30pm-5pm, due to the Making Space Discussion Event. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

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A Delayed Update

By Nisha | Published 25th November, 2010

What is new with the Making Space project…

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Library visitors from around Scotland – Women in Public Life group, Falkirk

By Morag | Published 22nd November, 2010

The WEA Women in Public Life group from Falkirk are the latest national group to visit GWL in our new premises. This community based learning group have researched the history of the suffragettes in Falkirk and are currently working on an environmental project. After an introductory visit from Morag, the library’s national lifelong learning development [...]

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Whom Dykes Divide

By Wendy Kirk | Published 10th November, 2010

A novel telling the history of women and children coal bearers and miners in Craigmillar and Newcraighall.

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Researching Women’s History in Clydebank

By Nisha | Published 22nd September, 2010

Would you like to find out more about women in the Blitz; the suffragettes in Clydebank; the Singer factory strikers; and women who worked in the shipyards? Jane Rae, Mary Haldane, Jenny Hyslop – do you know the stories of these women? Or maybe there is another woman from Clydebank’s past you would like to know more about…

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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?