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She Settles in the Shields: Intergenerational Story 5: Zubaidah Azad, Sahira Zafar and Mehreen Zafar

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Zubaidah Azad arrived in Scotland as a toddler with her Family in 1953.  Sadly her family experienced the India/Pakistan partition in which they lost loved ones.  Despite the trauma, her […]

She Settles in the Shields : Intergenerational Story 4 – Kishwar Siddiq and Farah Siddiq

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At age 15, Balkese Anwar migrated to Scotland.  She raised 6 wonderful children.  Her middle child Kishwar moved to Pollokshields after marriage in 1990. A well-known face in Pollokshields, Kishwar […]

She Settles in the Shields: Intergenerational Story 3 – Suraya Sharif, Tabassum Niamat, Zineerah Ali

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For International Women’s Week 2022, Glasgow Women’s Library is pleased to celebrate five intergenerational stories as told by some of wonderful women from Pollokshields. We will be sharing one story […]

She Settles in the Shields : Intergenerational Story 2 – Shafqat and Saadya Sabir

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For International Women’s Week 2022, Glasgow Women’s Library is pleased to celebrate five intergenerational stories as told by some of wonderful women from Pollokshields. We will be sharing one story […]

Intergenerational Stories – She Settles in the Shields

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For International Women’s Week 2022, Glasgow Women’s Library is pleased to celebrate five intergenerational stories as told by some of wonderful women from Pollokshields. We will be sharing one story […]

Three Decades of Changing Minds: Marking 30 Years of Glasgow Women’s Library

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Glasgow Women’s Library is thrilled to be the recipient of a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for a two year project to interpret, safeguard and share our own 30-year heritage, and enable us to ‘look back to move forward’.