Tag: Women Make History
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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Women Make History Workshop: Jewish Archives Visit
Continuing our popular Women Make History workshops into summer with a visit to the Jewish Archives.
West End Women’s Heritage Silent Walk
Step One: Download the West End Women’s Heritage Podcast here
Step Two: Take your MP3 player, iPod, phone, or whatever device you have the walk saved on, and a set of head phones, and gather outside the Kelvingrove Art Gallery at 2pm on Sunday 19 June 2011.
Step Three: Follow the walk at your own pace, taking in each stop and meeting up with the group at various points along the way.
Step Four: Meet the stars of the podcast for coffee and questions at Kelvingrove Art Gallery from 3.30pm onwards.
Hidden Gems of Garnethill
As part of the West End Festival join a Women Make History walking tour within Garnethill’s confined boundaries that spotlights the women who made Garnethill into the most exciting cultural and multicultural hotspot in Glasgow.
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WMH Workshop 4: Oral Histories
Based on consultation with those attending previous Women Make History workshops we will be holding a mystery history workshop.
Captured Hearts
Last night saw the return of two of our wonderful library friends, Melynda Jarratt and Mrs Zoe Boone. Having come all the way from Canada it was lovely to see them both again, as this is their third visit the the library – but first visit to our new space at The Mitchell. As always [...]
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Also tagged Canadian Warbrides, Captured Hearts, Melynda Jarratt, Mrs Boone, War Brides
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Captured Hearts
Melynda Jarratt and Zoe Boone return to Glasgow to tell us more about the experiences of British and European women caught up in the dramatic reality of war who fell in love with and married soldiers from a foreign country. When the war ends, they leave behind all they’ve ever known. A compelling portrait of love, passion, perseverance, and hope in a world torn apart by war.
Film Screening in Clydebank
As an end of term farewell to our Researching Women’s History group in Clydebank, we are hosting a film screening and discussion at the Hub Community Centre. You Play Your Part was produced by film-maker Kirsten MacLeod, who worked in collaboration with women from Govan as they reflected on their lives by the river Clyde. This film was made in association with Plantation Productions and the University of the West of Scotland.
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Also tagged Courses, Events, history, National Lifelong Learning, Taster sessions, Women's History
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Bottled Tears with Bev Tosh
I had the pleasure of attending the above named event. ‘War Brides’ were not a subject which I new a great deal about having only read one or two articles and seen some programmes on TV. Bev our speaker certainly knew her subject and delivered her talk with such enthusiasm and warmth. She told us [...]
