Older Posts: 2013

Welcome To The Library’s New Home

On Monday the library officially opened the door of its new home to the public. It is fantastic to finally be in a permanent home with so much potential. So […]

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Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival (SMHAFF) – ‘Moving Minds’ at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.

On 17th October, I paid a brief visit to the fifth annual ‘Moving Minds’ event at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Moving Minds forms part of the annual Scottish Mental […]

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GWL Staff and Volunteers celebrate in the new lending library space at 23 Landressy Street

The Next Chapter

We are very pleased and excited to have now relocated and to be up and running in our new permanent home in Landressy Street. We look forward to welcoming you all soon. This huge undertaking marks the start of a new chapter in the life of Glasgow Women’s Library.

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GWL's Adele Patrick accepts the Arts & Business Scotland Enterprising Museum Award 2013-14 from Joanne Orr, CEO of Museums Galleries Scotland.

Enterprising Museum of the Year

We are absolutely thrilled and honoured to have won the Arts & Business Scotland ‘Enterprising Museum of the Year’ Award 2013-14, sponsored by Museums Galleries Scotland. GWL scooped this prestigious accolade for our 21 Revolutions project.

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Pack, Move and Unpack

We have moved! For the last few days the Glasgow Women’s Library has been settling into it’s new home in Bridgeton. The process of moving has been long but definitely […]

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GWL staff and volunteers are busy setting up our new home at 23 Landressy Street in Bridgeton

Come on Board!

Glasgow Women’s Library wants to expand its team of Non-Executive Directors With recent relocation to permanent premises and a capital renovation project imminent, GWL would like to extend an invitation to women to join our Board of Directors.

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Firebrand Women: The Suffragettes

  As a female voter in the UK, I’ve always been immensely grateful to the many women who campaigned for my right to the franchise before such a thing was […]

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The Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival

Last night the Edinburgh Filmhouse was the venue for the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival (SMHAFF) International Film Award Ceremony for 2013. The SMHAFF started off in 2007 […]

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21 Revolutions Podcast: Vicki Feaver: Time-Piece

In the fourteenth of our Glasgow Women’s Library podcasts Vicki Feaver reads her 21 Revolutions piece, Time-Piece, and talks about her inspiration behind the work.

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‘The Collected Stories’, Lorrie Moore (2008)

    The Collected Stories is a compilation of short stories from some of Lorrie Moore’s previous publications (Birds of America (1998), Like Life (1990), Anagrams (1986) and Self Help […]

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