Older Posts: 2009

It’s a Gude Cause (Part 2)

On the 10th October 2009, the streets of Edinburgh were ablaze with purple, white, and green once again: so many beautiful banners held high; so many long skirts, rosettes, and feathered hats flapping in the breeze.

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Your Women’s Library in the Highlands

Introduction to national lifelong learning @ Glasgow Women’s Library. Alexandra Hotel, Fort Wiliam.Free of Charge. For more information contact Morag Smith.

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Wigtown Women’s Trail Group

Members of Wigtown Women’s Trail Group are busy researching and planning a fantastic women’s heritage walk in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway and you can follow their progress on the GWL […]

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Wigtown Women’s Trail Group

Members of Wigtown Women’s Trail Group are busy researching and planning a fantastic women’s heritage walk in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway and you can follow their progress on the GWL […]

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Women Writers Unite: Experience Counts

The final in our series of Women Writers Unite events sees women writers come together to read their work and show that “Experience Counts”.

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It’s A Gude Cause (Part 1)

What GWL has been doing to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement Procession through Edinburgh…

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Walk to Garnethill and back

Jean Girdwood from the Women Make History group writes about developing the women’s history walking tour of Garnethill for the ‘Paths for All’ event on Thursday, 17th September. The Library […]

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Singing for a Gude Cause #2

The second of the GWL and WEA singing workshops for Gude Cause. The workshops will give you the opportunity to learn the songs for the Gude Cause march re-enactment. The workshops are open to any women who want to be involved whether you feel have singing ability or not!

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Grand tidy-up

A big thank you to all who helped out with the grand Autumn tidy-up last week! I am amazed at how much we managed to do and how many random […]

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Subject in Process

Adele Patrick participated in the Subject in Process symposium at the CCA on Saturday, 6th September 2009. The ‘Subject in Process’ symposium sought to ask if artists could be considered to have an obligation to connect with events in the real world. Adele’s presentation, now published here, reflected on the specific significance of a ‘women’s library’ in the civic, cultural and historical landscape of Glasgow.

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