Hi – my name is Geraldine McAlinden. I am 32 years old and I am currently about to enter into my 4th year at Strathclyde University studying BA(Hons.) Arts and Social Sciences, majoring in History.
Category: National Lifelong Learning Blog
Hello from Kriss Nichol of Wigtown Women’s Walk Group
Hi, I’m Kriss, one of the members of Wigtown Women’s Walk Group. It doesn’t seem like only 15 months since the group was set up. That was back in April […]
Wigtown Community Festival 2010
Last week Morag and I travelled to Wigtown to run an oral histories workshop at the annual community festival. We drew into Wigtown square around 7 o’clock, in time to see a game of Bowls taking place in the green, and, just a few metres away, local children spilling out of the library – a lovely introduction to rural town life…
Glenburn girls group at Lapwing Lodge
I spent a windswept afternoon on a hilltop in Renfrewshire on Wednesday 23rd June completing the Lapwing Lodge assault course. All in a days work, naturally – perhaps in the […]
Women’s Work in the Highlands
Library staff and volunteers went on a road trip to Inverness just before Christmas to participate in the Women’s Work in the Highlands conference. This day event, organised in partnership […]
Wigtown Women’s Trail Group
Members of Wigtown Women’s Trail Group are busy researching and planning a fantastic women’s heritage walk in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway and you can follow their progress on the GWL […]
Settling in, windy roads and Cairngorm sunsets…
Just settling into my new role developing National Lifelong Learning at GWL and really enjoying it. Having spent the first few weeks getting to know the team, I’ve now started […]