It is over two years ago now that I first visited the Glasgow Women’s Library and it truly was love at first sight. I am now studying a Masters in Museum Studies, and I got my dream placement of working and being a part of the GWL. A condition of my placement is to conduct research and write a blog post on some objects from the collections. So, given my previous history with the GWL, I thought it only fitting to do my blog about the topic which brought me to value the library so much.
Category: From the Archives
Urania: feminist opposition to the powers of ‘Evil’
In my previous blog, I outlined the aims and structure of Urania. In this second one, I think it is essential to identify and then discuss the contents I found […]
Urania: How to be a bad XXs feminist and a queer angel in the 20s
Gender Studies placement student Giorgia Succi shares her first blog on Urania, one of the oldest journals in the Lesbian Archive.
Activists Make Archives Workshop – Join the Discussion
Go down in history with this free workshop which looks into the GWL’s archiving work, the importance of preserving LGBTQ history and how you would like your own history to be treated.
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.