Amelia is studying a Masters in Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde University and completed her placement with us in April. Read her first in a series of blogs focusing on […]
Category: Volunteers
A transformative summer: my volunteering experience at Glasgow Women’s Library
My name is Myriam, I was a student placement at Glasgow Women’s Library for the summer, ending today. I want to share my experience with you and maybe even motivate you to try it out for yourself!
#MeToo: An Interview With Professor Karen Boyle
In the summer of 2020 I wrote some blog posts for GWL based on my undergraduate dissertation on the #MeToo movement (you can read my first blog post here). Fast […]
Mary Alice explains Speedway
In this blog our volunteer Mary Alice tells us about the speedway collection held at GWL and how she helped to archive it with another volunteer, Arran.
A Golden Chance
This blog is about our volunteer Saadia’s experience of being involved in the Textiles and Activism Project practically and her reflections on the project.
No precious words to say thanks to GWL
This blog post is about my experience of joining and experiencing GWL for the previous seven months. I came to Scotland from Pakistan around three years ago, but I spent most of that time at my home in Glasgow. I discovered the GWL on the internet. I learned to read and write in English from school and University, but I have learned to speak and listen in English here at GWL. People in Glasgow speak very fast!
Kirsty McBride on being our first Visual Communication Resident
Kirsty became our first Visual Communication Resident in 2015 and has continued to work with us ever since. Here she shares some of the projects she worked on and what […]
A french volunteer at GWL : the first two months of this adventure
Hello, I am Laura, a french newly graduated volunteer at Glasgow Women’s Library for four months. As two months already have passed (too) quickly, I wanted to make some kind […]
10 cool facts about my internship with GWL
It is here. My very last blog post for GWL now that my internship is coming to an end. As farewells are never easy by their nature, I thought long […]
Some last steps in research before I say goodbye…
Our intern Jeanette just published her last monthly blog post before her return back to Germany. We will greatly miss her!