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Category: Volunteers

Of red crowns and Highland mountains

Published on by Jeanette Lang

This post was published 6 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

In her monthly blog post, our German intern Jeanette recounts her numerous experiences with GWL. This month, she takes you on a ride through the Scottish landscape and its people and she reminisces about Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Life at GWL after Museum of the Year, protesting against Trump and crafting suffragette sashes.

Published on by Jeanette Lang

This post was published 6 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

In this blog post, our intern Jeanette talks about getting crafty for GWL, protesting with us and what the past month had in store for her.

Processions, social media and campaigning.

Published on by Jeanette Lang

This post was published 6 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

In this blog post, our intern Jeanette recounts what she has been up to this month. Warning: may contain references to trips to Edinburgh, visits by social media people and her taking on a new job as a photographer.

A warm hello from our new intern

Published on by Jeanette Lang

This post was published 7 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

We are happy to welcome our new international volunteer, Jeanette. In this blog post, she will present herself and recount her first two weeks at GWL.

The ‘Abracadabra’ of a Novel – Ece Temelkuran

Published on by Maddy Robinson

This post was published 7 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

In the penultimate week of Women in Translation Month, we’re very excited to present a guest blog post from Turkish journalist and author Ece Temelkuran. Here she tells us about her most recent novel, Women Who Blow On Knots, and the strange sensation produced by life imitating art.

Thoughts on Are You My Mother?

Published on by Katie Young

This post was published 7 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

Alison Bechdel’s second memoir, Are You My Mother?, explores her relationship with her mother and her quest for her to understand their relationship. It discusses her experiences of therapy in her attempts both to understand herself from a psychoanalytical perspective and the way she and her mother interact with each other. It also covers her parents’ relationship, and her mother’s marriage to a closeted gay man as detailed in her first memoir, Fun Home.

Creative Commemoration: Putting the ‘Story’ in ‘History’

Published on by Maddy Robinson

This post was published 7 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

Some thoughts on the importance of telling stories as a gateway to the past, inspired by the recent BBC Reith Lectures and GWL’s ‘Voices from the Belvidere’.