This month not only marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of Glasgow Women’s Library but also it is 30 years since women arrived at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire in order to oppose the siting of 96 nuclear cruise missiles at the base.
At the library we have some items relating to Greenham Common and other materials from the women’s peace movement including badges, music and leaflets.
The Scottish Council on Archives is running a project to collect recipes, from families and individuals, from the familiar to the bizarre. With this in mind, I thought I would see what we had within our collections.
To celebrate International Women’s Day, myself and two our fantastic volunteers – Hannah Ellul and Alice Andrews – set up a little exhibition in Dundee Central Library. The exhibition featured […]
Last weekend I attended the London Metropolitan Archive’s 8th Annual LGBT Archives and History conference. Despite changes to the programme due to the snowy weather, it was a full and […]
A few weeks ago I ran a workshop entitled ‘Orlando’s Sisters’. During it we had a discussion about Vita Sackville-West, the inspiration behind Woolf’s Orlando, and also Radclyffe Hall, whose […]
The third of our Archive taster session will look at re-housing material, sorting and box making.
The second of our Archive taster session will look at photograph handling.
Introduction to archives and object handling & box-listing
If you’d like to:
… then come along to our archive taster sessions!
We are very proud to announce that Glasgow Women’s Library has been awarded full status as an Accredited Museum by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
