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Category: From the Archives

Catherine Morrison: A Woman’s Record of the Second World War and Beyond

Published on by Rhia Speirs

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

My name is Rhia, and I’m currently working on my master’s degree in Gender Studies at Stirling University, and diving into the archives here at Glasgow Women’s Library. As part […]

Elaine Burton and Muriel Spark: Women’s Lives Lost or Located in Archives

Published on by Rhia Speirs

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

My name is Rhia, and I’m currently working on my master’s degree in Gender Studies at Stirling University. As part of a project with Glasgow Women’s Library, I’m investigating some […]

International Women’s Day in the Edinburgh Women’s Liberation Movement

Published on by Lucy Henry

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

The archive collection at the Women’s Library is full of material which illuminates women’s history, and as part of my Genders Studies Masters at the University of Stirling I’ve been […]

Approaching an Archive

Published on by Phoebe McLoughlin

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

Approaching an Archive – Part One; Culture Shock Allow the pleasure of introducing myself; I’m Phoebe. I’m a Northern Irish student trundling my way about Scotland and finding myself studying […]

Dorothy Dick – Ambulance Driver and Animal Activist

Published on by Rhia Speirs

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

My name is Rhia, and I’m currently working on my master’s degree in Gender Studies at Stirling University, and diving into the archives here at Glasgow Women’s Library. As part […]

In Profile and Staying There: Celebrating 25 years of GWL by taking a look back at its predecessor, Women in Profile.

Published on by Nicola Maksymuik

This post was published 8 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

Information ans Management placement student, Ellen Embleton, writes about the collections she worked on during her 2 week cataloguing placement at the library.

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

Published on by Maddy Robinson

This post was published 8 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’.

Arena Three: A network to spread lesbian culture and empower female experience

Published on by Giorgia Succi

This post was published 8 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

Arena Three, March 1972 In this last but not least important blog I will outline Arena Three’s evolution of content and style lingering on the most compelling cases. As I […]

Arena Three: Lesbians do it better

Published on by Giorgia Succi

This post was published 8 years ago. You can explore more recent posts through the categories and tags.

Here we go to my third post! In this blog I am going to compare Arena Three’s editorial structure and aims with those of Urania (So, do no worry if […]