GWL at 30

Glasgow Women’s Library celebrated its 30th anniversary in September 2021. As we now enter our fourth decade, we are thrilled to be recipients of a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for a two year project to interpret, safeguard and share our own 30-year heritage, and enable us to ‘look back to move forward’.

Intergenerational Stories – She Settles in the Shields

By Syma | Published 8th March, 2022

For International Women’s Week 2022, Glasgow Women’s Library is pleased to celebrate five intergenerational stories as told by some of wonderful women from Pollokshields. We will be sharing one story […]

Read our LiPS again: Lesbians in Peer Support

By Celine Kempf | Published 21st February, 2022

This is the sixth blog of a series exploring the GWL newsletters published from 1996 to 2008. This month we share some highlights from the regular column ‘Read our LIPS: Lesbians in Peer Support’.

Drawing of a woman dressed as a farmer holding a pitch fork and gazing out to a field. The text reads: for a healthy, happy life, join the Glasgow Women's Library/

GWL at 30: Health and Wellbeing

By Gabrielle | Published 4th February, 2022

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.

GWL at 30: (Digital) Access

By Celine Kempf | Published 21st December, 2021

This is the fourth blog of a series in celebration of GWL’s 30th anniversary. Find out more about highlights from the Library’s past Newsletters.

Violence Against Women

By Celine Kempf | Published 21st November, 2021

This is the third blog of a series in celebration of GWL’s 30th anniversary. Find out more about highlights from the Library’s past Newsletters.

A colour photograph of author Denise Mina with Melody House. They are standing facing the camera, in the background and out of focus is a view from Garnethill towards the west end of Glasgow. Denise is wearing a blue denim Levis jacket with a red t-shirt and Melody wears a green embroidered shirt under a dark green puffer jacket. Both are smiling.

Glasgow Women’s Library Garnethill Walking Tour with Denise Mina | Book Week Scotland 2021

By Naomi Brown | Published 16th November, 2021

This pre-recorded film is part of the 2021 Book Week Scotland Digital Festival. Join Crime writer Denise Mina and Glasgow Women’s Library volunteer Melody House on this special, conversational tour […]

Past and Present Green Work

By Celine Kempf | Published 21st October, 2021

This is the second blog of a series in celebration of GWL’s 30th anniversary. Find out more about highlights from the Library’s past Newsletters.

Old photograph of a shop front in Garnethil with a a sign reading Women's Library in uneven text

GWL at 30

By GWL | Published 21st September, 2021

On this day in 1991, in a draughty little shopfront in Garnethill, Glasgow Women’s Library opened its doors for the first time. Now happily settled in our permanent home in Bridgeton, we are taking time over this anniversary year to ‘look back to move forward’.