One of our volunteers shares reflections on our recent screening of ‘The Spies Who Ruined Our Lives’, alongside recommendations for further reading on the topic.
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Staff, volunteers and student placements share updates from projects and events at Glasgow Women’s Library
LGBTQ+ History Month Books
Hello, I am Mae, one of the volunteers at The Glasgow Women’s Library and I have been tasked with creating a collection of books for LGBTQ+ History month. After a […]
Book Picnic February 2025
Every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read at our Book Picnic. Here’s what we’ve been reading recently.
Valentine’s Day: Love and Loathing in Postcards of the Suffrage Age
My PhD research focusses on several themes that emerge in ‘comic’ anti-suffrage / anti-women postcards produced by private companies between 1900 and 1930, and also examines the handwritten messages on the back of the postcards to add insight into societal attitudes at the time.
Muna Saeed: Helping to Heal or to Escape
This essay was shared with us by Muna Saeed to include in our current exhibition While We Wait. Muna is Glasgow based refugee writer from Yemen.
GWL at 30: Anti-racist work
In this podcast volunteers Niamh and Joy chat with Co-founder and Co-director Adele Patrick, BME Women’s Project Development Worker Syma Ahmed, and Outreach and Engagement Development worker Lil Green, about […]
Frances Power Cobbe – The Forgotten Victorian Feminist
If you visit Parliament Square in London, you will find a statue of leading suffragist Millicent Fawcett. Take a closer look at the base of this statue and you will find the names and small images of other notable feminists. One of these is the Victorian-era feminist, Frances Power Cobbe, who is also my great-great-great-great aunt.
Story Cafe round up: women photographers
Wendy welcomed everyone, saying it was lovely to see so many familiar faces and some new ones for our first Story Cafe of 2025. Today we celebrated early women photographers […]
Book Picnic January 2025
Every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read at our Book Picnic. Here’s what we’ve been reading recently.
Women’s Christmas Day: Ireland’s celebration of women
As the festive season draws to a close and we all return to normal life, on Monday (6th January) Ireland celebrated one last day of festivities with “Women’s Christmas Day” or, in Irish, “Nollaig na mBan”.