Rebecca Jones

‘One by One in the Darkness’ – Deirdre Madden

    * ‘One by One in the Darkness’ by Deirdre Madden is reviewed as part of the Mixing the Colours Resource which is available to view at Glasgow Women’s […]

BOOK REVIEW – ‘Divided City’ by Theresa Breslin

The following review has been submitted by Glasgow Women’s Library volunteer Kath Kane as part of the Mixing the Colours: Women Speaking About Sectarianism project. If you would like to find […]

Women and Sectarianism – Working Together

On Tuesday 27th May, the ‘Mixing the Colours: Women Speaking About Sectarianism’ project was delighted to welcome a number of our partner organisations to Glasgow Women’s Library for a workshop on ‘Women […]

Mixing the Colours at the Second Community Action Research in Tackling Sectarianism Co-Inquiry

On Wednesday 14th May, hosts Kate McHendry (Development Manager at the Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC)) and Robin Jamieson (Community Research Officer at Community Links (South Lanarkshire)) welcomed Glasgow Women’s […]

Colours of Change - a group-written poem from a Mixing the Colours workshop in Brora

Mixing the Colours Goes to Brora!

On 27th and 28th March, I had the great pleasure of assisting Rachel Thain-Gray (Mixing the Colours Development Worker at Glasgow Women’s Library) as she hosted a series of creative […]

Dundee Women’s Festival 2014: ‘Sisters in Crime’

On Wednesday 5th March, I joined Morag Smith (National Lifelong Learning Development Worker at Glasgow Women’s Library) at the ‘Sisters in Crime’ session at Menzieshill Community Centre, Dundee. Part of […]

‘Glasgow Girls’ at the Citizens Theatre

On Thursday 20th February, a group of women from the Glasgow Women’s Library Seeing Things and Mixing the Colours projects went along to the Citizens Theatre for the first night of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural […]

Illuminated Letters Workshop – West Scotland College, Greenock

On Wednesday 19th February, I joined Morag Smith (National Lifelong Learning Development Worker at Glasgow Women’s Library) at an Illuminated Letters workshop at the West College Scotland campus in Greenock. […]

Happy National Libraries Day!

Saturday 8th February 2014 is National Libraries Day – the culmination of a week of events and activities celebrating the vital role played by libraries at community level and beyond. […]

Emma Donoghue – Room (2010)

It’s not particularly surprising that Emma Donoghue’s Room, with its harrowing and controversial story told through the voice of a five-year-old boy, met with criticism when it was published in […]