We’d like to grow our team of volunteer Women’s Heritage Walks tour guides and tour guide assistants and would love to hear from you if you are interested in women’s history, or want to learn more, and who want to contribute to making women’s achievements, lives and contributions more visible and better known.
Author: Gabrielle
GWL at 30: Changes in Lifelong Learning
Drawing on GWL’s Newsletters, published from 1996 to 2008, this post examine the development of the Lifelong Learning programme, something that continues to nourish the life of those of us who are involved in the library today, sometimes without us even being aware of it.
GWL at 30: Health and Wellbeing
The sixth in a series of 12 blogs drawing on GWL’s newsletters published from 1996 to 2008 and showcasing past work on a range of issues from anti-racist work to access and inclusion. This month we look at how GWL has sought to improve women’s health and wellbeing.
National Lottery funding awarded for digital volunteering
Glasgow Women’s Library has been awarded £19,424 of National Lottery funding to launch a digital volunteering initiative and break down barriers to contributing to and accessing heritage.
What we’re doing for COP26
In the lead up to and during COP26 we have a range of ways you can find out more about women’s role in tackling climate change and come together with others to learn and share experiences.
Connecting with Kurdish women
A few months ago a former volunteer, Jenni, contacted us to let us know about a group of women setting up a women’s library in the Kurdish region of Iraq where she had spent some time volunteering. Would we like to make a connection? Of course, we did!
Finding Jessie
Jessie Stephen (1893-1979) was a twentieth-century British suffragette, labour activist and local councillor, who spent much of her life in Glasgow.
Una Donna by Sibilla Aleramo
Our volunteer Joy shares her thoughts on this new translation of Una Donna by Sinilla Aleramo, first published in Italian in 1906.
January Book Picnic Recommendations
After our holidays some of our volunteers and staff got together online to share what they’d been reading over the festive period: lots of fiction, including for children and young adults, and a self-help book inspired by bees! Here are our recommendations…
Themes of Isolation in our collection
Emilie, who was on placement with us last Spring, highlights how a selection of books she borrowed at the start of lockdown each look at different aspects of isolation.