This exhibition supports visitors to consider the social history of objects relating to women’s history, illustrating their historical and contemporary inequality – and linking interpretation with political campaigns for reform such as reproductive rights, domestic abuse, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment, and sexual violence.
Calling all women writers in Edinburgh! Check out our new connect and create writing group, on the first Saturday of every month.
GWL Warm Welcome drop-in days take place on the first Saturday of every month. If you are new to GWL this is a relaxed way to find out about borrowing, volunteering, our programme and collections.
This Open Archive event will showcase our National Museum of Roller Derby collection, so get your skates on to discover more about this inclusive grassroots contact sport!
This LGBT History Month we invite LGBTQI+ people to stride with pride and become history detectives. In these workshops, we’ll research and shape a new heritage trail, to be launched in the Summer.
At this event, Hitherto Unknown researchers will present highlights from their finds and we will publish a new set of radical Reading Lists seeking to amplify the voices still going unheard today.
