Category: Badges of Honour

Badges of Honour Exhibition May 1-30

Published on by Emma F

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Right now Glasgow Women’s Library are showcasing a fascinating array of badges for the Badges of Honour project. While this will explore the political and social significance of badge-wearing, it will also tell the more personal stories behind it. There are many reasons why people wear them: to some it is about identity and to others…

Peter Gilpin’s donation to Badges of Honour

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We are absolutely delighted to receive the donation of Peter Gilpin’s ‘Women’s Board’ to the GWL archive and will be proudly displaying it as part of our upcoming Badges of Honour exhibition, May 1 to 23, 2014, and from then onwards it will form an important part of our GWL badge collection in the Archive…

Nelson Mandela – Apartheid, Women and Glasgow

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Despite great sadness at the death of Nelson Mandela on 5th December 2013 it has, of course, invited fresh dialogue about his life and achievements, and the very nature of […]

A Life in Badges – interviewing Anne Begg MP, in Aberdeen

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We set off for Aberdeen last Thursday to interview  Dame Anne Begg, MP for the Badges of Honour project. Anne has kindly decided to donate her large badge collection to […]