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. February’s NMRD Object of the month is a poster for a roller derby bout between Leeds Roller Dolls vs Auld Reekie Roller Girls in 2010.
Category: From the Archives
NMRD Object of the Month
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. In 2016, to celebrate our new permanent home in GWL’s new Bridgeton HQ, we bring you an ‘Object of the Month’ from our collection.
New Zines by Sophie Cunningham
We’re very pleased to have recently had two new zines donated by artist Sophie Cunningham, Pocket Guide to Bitches and Pin Up. Sophie is a recent graduate from the Glasgow School of Art who is currently based between Glasgow and London. Her work explores the growing concerns about her generation and questions the role women play in today’s westernised society.
Feminism from the past – The Archives.
I got a chance to look at some objects from the archives in Glasgow Women’s Library. One object that particularly interested me was a postcard from the 20th century. The […]
Women and WW1: 1914 from a Suffragist Perspective
With the outbreak of WW1 in the summer of 1914, the campaign for women’s right to vote was officially put on hold. However, looking at the attitudes in 1914 of leading Suffragists in GWL’s collection of ‘Jus Suffragii’, the mouthpiece of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance, it is evident that the goal of suffrage was still highly relevant even during this time of upheaval.
A Day in The Life of A Victorian Woman Factory Worker
Anne Marie Shields investigates women working in factories in Victorian times, by reading Anne Donovan’s 21 Revolutions story Lassie Wi’ A Yella Coatie and The Woman Worker from 1908.
Mary Macarthur: The Woman Worker
Why not take a look at one of the oldest and most interesting items held by the Archives – The Woman Worker – and the lady behind it, Mary Macarthur.
Discovering Dorothy Dick
It’s amazing what you can learn about a person from the keepsakes they leave behind. This is how I got to know Dorothy Dick.
Maggie McIver
Believe it or not the creator of the Barras was actually a woman called Maggie McIver. Known as the Barra Queen she prospered at a time when very few women could. Read more about her here,
Castlemilk (Haunted) Womanhouse
Organised by women in the Womanhouse, notably Rachael Harris and Julie Roberts, the Haunted House was a participatory project aimed at children. For weeks, women and children in Castlemilk worked on making gruesome sculptures, installations, and costumes…