Badges of Honour
Badges of Honour Characters
As part of GWL’s Heritage Lottery funded Badges of Honour, library volunteer and artist Eilidh has created a series of characters using the mannequins and clothing displayed in the Badges of Honour exhibition as inspiration
Badges of Honour Exhibition May 1-30
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
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
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 […]
Pride Glasgow
On the 10th of August the library were at Pride Glasgow telling people about the library and it’s events, in particular the Badges of Honour project. On sale at the […]
A Life in Badges – interviewing Anne Begg MP, in Aberdeen
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 […]
Badges of Honour at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre
The third Badges of Honour visit took place on Wednesday 19th June. This was an rare chance to visit the Glasgow Museum Resources Centre (GMRC), based out at Nitshill. GMRC […]
Badges of Honour at GWL
On Friday the first in our special series of Badges of Honour visits took place in the Library. It was a rare opportunity to dive into the badges housed in […]