Badges of Honour: People’s Palace

Badges of Honour

How Badge-Wearing Women Changed the World

The Badges of Honour team are connecting our badges with other collections in Scotland. If you would like to discover more about the world of women’s badges and the way they, and the women who wore them, changed the world book onto our inspiring and fascinating series of visits.

People’s Palace: Wednesday 12th June, 2pm

Join us on a visit to the Library’s new neighbour on Glasgow Green. Get up close and personal with the Suffragette medals, the fore-mothers of our own badge collection.

The project will include additional visits to other collections in Scotland including:

• Glasgow Women’s Library: Friday 7th June, 2pm
• Glasgow Museum’s Resource Centre: Wednesday 19th June, 2pm
• Glasgow Caledonian University: Tuesday 23rd July, 2pm
• University of Edinburgh: Mon 12th August,1.30pm

Where you can learn about suffragette medals, women’s liberation badges and more, and hear more about the amazing women who owned them. To find out more click on the title links above.

Booking

These events are free of charge but booking is essential. Please click here to book onto one or all of the Badges of Honour visits . Please ensure you detail which of the visits you wish to attend and how many places you want to book when completing the booking.

Tell your story

Over the next few months the door is open to anyone who wants to get involved. Maybe the time is right to add your precious badges to our archive: our archivists will welcome you and invite you to tell us more about your treasures. Maybe you have memories of a badge you loved and lost? Arrange to come in and browse our collection to see if we have a copy and tell us more about what this badge meant to you.  To get involved simply contact our friendly archivists Lindsey and Laura.