Saturday 8th February 2014 is National Libraries Day – the culmination of a week of events and activities celebrating the vital role played by libraries at community level and beyond. […]
Category: Placements and Volunteers Blog
Emma Donoghue – Room (2010)
It’s not particularly surprising that Emma Donoghue’s Room, with its harrowing and controversial story told through the voice of a five-year-old boy, met with criticism when it was published in […]
Community Action Research in Tackling Sectarianism Co-Inquiry
On 15th January, I was pleased and privileged to have the opportunity to join Rachel Thain-Gray (Development Worker for the Mixing the Colours project at Glasgow Women’s Library) at the […]
My Placement at Glasgow Women’s Library
Carrie, third year Community Learning and Development student from Strathclyde University, has been on a full-time placement with the national lifelong learning project since September. Here she talks about her […]
Alice Munro – Dear Life (2012)
A Nobel Prize winner and a leading proponent of the short story format, Alice Munro requires little introduction. Featuring fourteen stories, Dear Life is the most recent short story collection […]
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 […]
Book Week Scotland 2013 (25th November – 1st December) at Glasgow Women’s Library
Glasgow Women’s Library offered a full, fun schedule of events for Book Week Scotland 2013. I had a great time at several of the sessions on offer, where I got […]
Dangerous Women Conference (The Jimmy Reid Foundation)
On Saturday 2nd November, The Jimmy Reid Foundation offered a free, three-hour conference entitled ‘Dangerous Women: A conference on the women who campaigned against the First World War and for […]
Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival (SMHAFF) – ‘Moving Minds’ at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow.
On 17th October, I paid a brief visit to the fifth annual ‘Moving Minds’ event at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. Moving Minds forms part of the annual Scottish Mental […]
Firebrand Women: The Suffragettes
As a female voter in the UK, I’ve always been immensely grateful to the many women who campaigned for my right to the franchise before such a thing was […]