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Category: From the Archives
Come Together
I’m Alice, and I currently work at GWL as a sessional worker, working specifically on the collection which is popularly known as the Lesbian Archive. My job is to work […]
Helen Crawfurd: Activist in the Archives
In our latest 25th birthday blog, GWL archivist Nicola talks about one of her favourite items from our collections.
NMRD Object of the Month: Green-Eyed Blockstar poster
The National Museum of Roller Derby is the UK’s first permanent collection of ephemera and memorabilia relating to the sport of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. December’s NMRD Object of the month is the poster for Green-Eyed Blockstar, the first Women vs Men bout in the UK.
NMRD Object of the Month: Track Queens programme
The National Museum of Roller Derby is the UK’s first permanent collection of ephemera and memorabilia relating to the sport of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. November’s NMRD Object of the month is the programme for the 1st European WFTDA Tournament in 2012.
Thinly Populated – Scottish anti-nuclear activism in our archives
In this post we hear from placement student Hannah Grout, who has spent the last 2 weeks at the library cataloguing the personal papers of anti-nuclear activist, Kathleen Miller.
Meet Elizabeth, Project Archivist and Women’s History Advocate
In today’s post we meet the newest member of the Speaking Out team, Elizabeth O’Brien. Elizabeth is one of our project archivists working at Glasgow Women’s Library to catalogue, digitise and make the Scottish Women’s Aid archive more accessible.
NMRD Object of the Month: Severn Roller Torrent artwork
The National Museum of Roller Derby is the UK’s first permanent collection of ephemera and memorabilia relating to the sport of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. October’s NMRD Object of the month is the original drawing for the Severn Roller Torrent artwork.
NMRD Object of the Month: First issue of Inside Line magazine
The National Museum of Roller Derby is the UK’s first permanent collection of ephemera and memorabilia relating to the sport of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby. September’s NMRD Object of the month is the first issue of Inside Line magazine, from September 2011.
Sappho and Lesbian Visibility – Making the Personal Political
This is the first in a series of four blog posts discussing and reframing Sappho magazine, a gay women’s publication that ran from 1972 until 1981. For my research […]