We carry on our blogs on the Edinburgh Women’s Centre Archive by delving into the contentious issue of reproductive rights. As one of its founding demands passed at the 1971 […]
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Maud Joachim’s Hunger Strike Medal comes to GWL
Through a public fundraising appeal and with support from the National Acquisitions Fund, GWL was able to succesfully bid on a hunger strike medal awarded to suffragette Maud Joachim in 1909 by the Women’s Social and Political Union.
Help us fundraise to acquire Maud Joachim’s medal recognising the first hunger strike in Scotland.
Help us fundraise to acquire this important piece of #herstory
Autumn Programme 2023 Out Now
As we enter Autumn and eventually the new year we’ll be focusing on and honouring the importance of listening, paying attention and some of the quieter acts of resistance that can be overlooked amongst many demanding distractions.
Rabiya Choudhry artwork donated to Glasgow Women’s Library
We are delighted to announce Rabiya Choudhry’s illuminated artwork ‘Give light and people will find the way (Ella Baker)’, commissioned by The Common Guild for ‘anywhere in the universe’ has been gifted to Glasgow Women’s Library by the artist and will remain in place here at the library as a permanent installation.
Doors Open Day 2023
We are delighted to be throwing open our doors for Doors Open Day 2023.
Visit the beautiful Category B-listed Carnegie Library, home to the world-famous Glasgow Women’s Library since 2013. Get to know the library, archive, museum and our year round programme of events dedicated to women’s lives, histories and achievements. We’ll be open 10am – 4.30 pm on Friday the 15th and 12noon – 4pm on Saturday the 16th of September. No need to book, just pop in!
Bold Types Scottish Women’s Creative Writing Competition 2023
Be bold and submit your short stories and poems to our annual writing competition. We’re following Book Week Scotland’s theme – ADVENTURE. Feel free to interpret the theme in any way you like and we can’t wait to be enthralled by your entries!
From ‘Mother House’ to ‘Role Play’, placement student Viki explores the work of artist Pamela So
As part of our ‘GWL Origins: Pre-internet Community Building’ exhibition GWL recreated a vinyl window text site from Pam So’s ‘Mother House’ (1998) exhibited in the prior Trongate space of […]
Moving the Image / Moviendo la Imagen: Representing, Reframing and Reclaiming
Call for Collaborators Artists Emily Beaney and Ana García Jácome are seeking expressions of interest from disabled women with a creative practice to contribute to an online collaborative project. The […]
Student placement Viki Matejova shares her feminist snailhood at GWL
Coming to the end of my placement at the library as part of my MSc in Applied Gender Studies at Strathclyde, I would like to share my experience as a […]