The Revolution on Roller Skates will be the first public exhibition at the Library of materials donated to the “National Museum of Roller Derby”. Carefully curated by members of Glasgow Roller Derby and Auld Reekie Roller Girls, it offers an insight into the fast-and-furious first years of Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby in the UK.
Glasgow Women’s Library was launched in September 1991 and, with the support of thousands of donors, volunteers and dedicated workers has grown into a remarkable library, museum and archive collection […]
Glasgow Women’s Library is a phenomenon: the sole resource of its kind in Scotland. We are celebrating our 21st birthday by commissioning 21 women artists to make new work inspired by GWL’s library, archive and museum artefacts. Artists including Claire Barclay, Kate Davis, Lucy Skaer and Karla Black have created work that draws on sources including campaign badges, knitting patterns, suffragette ephemera, album covers, feminist newsletters and lesbian dime novels. Come, celebrate and be inspired.
A special Women’s Heritage walk focussing on women artists, writers and activists and the origins of Glasgow Women’s Library.
This short guided walk will be an opportunity to dive into the fascinating and rich history of Glasgow’s ‘village on a hill’ that harbours a wealth of women’s history, from Glasgow Girls to the cluster of groundbreaking local and migrant women who helped recreate Glasgow’s image of itself.
