Tag: Women Make History
Join our personal history tours group in Govanhill and Pollokshields
This group promotes healthy living and the chance to explore your own area as never before with your very own Personal History Tour. A great opportunity for you to reflect and also to encourage physical activity.
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Also tagged BME, Govanhill, Local History, Personal History, Pollokshields, Women's History
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Wigtown Book Festival: Women’s History Walk
This fantastic guided walk, created by local women, charts the history and achievements of Wigtown women.
Wigtown Book Festival: Podcast Launch
The Wigtown Women’s History Walk was launched in March 2010 and has been in great demand for 18 months. The group of volunteers who created the walk have now created a downloadable podcast of the walk and this event will celebrate its launch.
Jean Girdwood: Walking into Happiness
My name is Jean Girdwood and I first heard about Glasgow Women’s Library in 2006, through Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum where I am a voluntary guide. The library was looking for people to help with a project called Women Make History. The staff, leaders and my peers have been instrumental in promoting Glasgow Women’s History to every corner of Glasgow. We were encouraged to research both historical and living Glasgow Women who individually made a difference to the city both in the arts, sciences, education, politics etc, and not forgetting the ordinary or should I say extraordinary women of Glasgow who were/are an integral part of the development and history of Glasgow.
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Also tagged history, research, West End Women's Heritage Walk
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Kirsty Hood: Me and the Library
Women Make History drew me in to the library around October 2 years ago. I’d always had a soft spot for “the old days” stories my Gran would recount and hoped that getting involved would recreate a bit of Gran story warmth. I’d also missed researching since completing my history degree, and was looking to get some cogs turning again. Fairly naively, at that point I hadn’t considered the lack of recognition about Glasgow wimmen’s contribution to the city’s history. Very quickly it became clear that there were a wealth of stories about women’s achievements to be told, shared and celebrated.
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Also tagged Glasgow, history, Kirsty Hood, Merchant City Walk, research, Walks, West End Women's Heritage Walk, Women of the Merchant City
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Launch of the Necropolis Women’s Heritage Walk Map
This event is now fully booked. The launch of our latest ground-breaking free Women’s Heritage Walk maps will be marked by a guided walk with some of the map’s researchers and its editor, Heather Middleton. A 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.
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Also tagged Friends of the Necropolis, Glasgow Necropolis, Resources, Women's Heritage Walk Maps
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Glasgow in the Making: Women’s West End Walk and Talk
For Glasgow in the Making we are holding our pioneering women’s heritage walk revealing a hidden history of the West End of Glasgow. A unique and inspiring insight into the hitherto unsung women who made the West End. Followed by refreshments and discussion at the Albany Learning and Conference Centre.
Women Make History Workshops
Following on from our successful oral histories session in June there will be a chance to practice recording and to have a go at transcription. New comers welcome to join.
WMH Film Night: You Play Your Part & Red Skirts
Part of our Women Make History workshops programme we are having a film night, watching 2 shorts films based on the Govan Rent strikes: Red Skirts on Clydeside and You Play Your Part.
Women of the Merchant City: Fully Booked
Uncover the Merchant City’s hidden history during this walk around Glasgow’s cosmopolitan hub. Join Glasgow Women’s Library tour guides at the Merchant City Festival to discover the female stars that stud the fabric of this famous quarter. Scandal, vice, radicalism, regeneration and revival are topics highlighted by our original tour.
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Also tagged Heritage Walk, Merchant City Festival, Women of the Merchant City
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