Whilst we have seen how the establishment of the library benefited the women of industrialising Bridgeton, how did the library modernise? In this blog post, we explore how in the […]
Category: Our History
The Library as an Arena for Self-Expression
‘The main consideration should be to help those who will help themselves; to provide part of the means by which those who desire to improve may do so; to give […]
The Women of Industrialising Bridgeton
In our discourse on what it meant to be a woman during the period of industrialisation, we often find it hard to move beyond the idea of the woman in […]
The Origin of the Public Library
Before we can explore the history of the Bridgeton Public Library, it is first important to understand the processes through which Carnegie granted money for the establishment of these libraries, […]
Carnegie’s Libraries in Scotland: The History of the Bridgeton Public Library
‘From Scotland’s heather-covered braes, In Babyhood he came, And early fixed his childish gaze, On lucre and on fame…// So skilfully he flew his kite, That wondrous was his luck; […]
A Space to Create our Ecofeminism . . .
On Saturday 30th March, 65 women came together at the ‘Our Space, Our Place: Creating Ecofeminism’ event at Glasgow Women’s Library, to discover and explore positive and creative responses to […]
Kirsty McBride on being our first Visual Communication Resident
Kirsty became our first Visual Communication Resident in 2015 and has continued to work with us ever since. Here she shares some of the projects she worked on and what […]
On Revolting Women, Revolting Interns
Hi everyone! I’m Katie, and I’ve been interning at GWL with the Edinburgh International Book Festival project. This blog post will be about our Revolting Women Takeover tent, which took […]
Life at GWL after Museum of the Year, protesting against Trump and crafting suffragette sashes.
In this blog post, our intern Jeanette talks about getting crafty for GWL, protesting with us and what the past month had in store for her.
Pens, pens, pens
Sitting in the Engender Conference in the event room of the GWL, intern Luba reflects on pens. The conference started, many inspiring women talked on the stage and interesting and challenging questions were raised. With this unused pen in my left hand, I zoned out for a moment. While a smooth voice talked about “challenge”, “activism”, “fight” in the background, an idiom came to my mind: “A pen is mightier than the sword”.