Tag: Women Make History
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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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 [...]
Clydebank women’s history group
The Clydebank Women’s History Group have now finished their second term of researching women’s history in Clydebank. The group have been meeting since October 2010 at Dalmuir Community Centre and have enjoyed getting together with tutor Ronnie Scott, chatting, reminiscing and planning their research. They visited the Mitchell Library archive where they found some material [...]
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WMH Workshop 3: Bottled Tears
Explore “one of the strangest migrations in modern history” (BBC). Following World War Two, tens of thousands of war brides made one-way voyages to their husbands’ distant homelands. In a spellbinding presentation Beverley Tosh will tell the tales of seven lasses who came of age in wartime Scotland then found themselves transplanted from Newfoundland to New Zealand.
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Also tagged Archives, Bev Tosh, Beverly Tosh, History Workshops, War Brides
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