Trans Zines: Launching Our New Display

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Our archive is full of incredible zines donated to us over the years by their makers and fanz. Health and heartaches, music and menstruation, our zines are full of knowledge and made with love. They are coming out of the archive this Spring with our new Zine Display. This launch will celebrate our Trans Zines, […]

We Deserve A Medal: Militant Suffrage Activism

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Celebrate Glasgow Women’s Library’s recent acquisition of Maud Joachim’s hunger strike medal, with a rare opportunity to see two other special medals in this exhibition of militant suffrage memorabilia. A suffragette and member of the Women’s Social and Political Union, Maud was arrested in Dundee on the 20th October 1909, with Adela Pankhurst, Helen Archdale, […]

Project Esperanza

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Eve-Hawa Quilt, 2023 Fabric, shells, bamboo canes The Project Esperanza ‘Eve/Hawa Quilt’ is a poignant tapestry woven by the skilled hands of Project Esperanza's Women's sewing group in Edinburgh. More than a mere creation, it serves as a profound expression of resilience and healing. Crafted as part of a therapeutic journey, the quilt delves into […]

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Teenage Kicks

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Meg can’t wait to leave home. Cynthia misses her family back in the Caribbean. Pamela is pregnant and her mum wants the baby adopted. Andrea fancies girls. Life in 1960s Britain was changing fast but it wasn’t all miniskirts and pop music. This beautiful installation, with illustrations by Candice Purwin in digital and other forms, […]

Event Series Story Café

Story Café Special: Margaret McQuade McAuslan

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

From The Calton to New York, Beirut, Morocco and Bulgaria, Memoirs of a Gallus Weegie is Margaret McQuade McAuslan’s expansive life in prose, poetry, photographs and anecdotes. Recounting her experiences as a working-class woman and atheist growing up in Glasgow in the 1950s and 60s, her book is ambitious, honest and deeply moving. Margaret will […]

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Event Series Women Making It

Women Making It

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Join us this Autumn for a range of GWL's bitesize feminist crafting including block printing, candle art, quilling, stone art and much more!

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Ramona (Film Screening)

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Film screening and poetry reading: Ramona Victoria Linares Villegas | Dominican Republic 2023 | Docu-fiction | 1h21m | Spanish with English Subtitles Blurring the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction ‘Ramona’ offers a postmodern pastiche of class observed through the interplay of documentary, fiction, and theatre. The film follows a young actress preparing to undertake the role of a pregnant teenager and […]

Open Archive: Exploring Health

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Health and wellbeing, whether physical, mental, emotional or social, affects us all. In this Open Archive, our archivist and curator will introduce material focusing on health as a broad theme, covering topics such as puberty, periods and reproductive rights, women’s health movements, and aspects of alternative health, wellness and healing. Dip into our digitised Dear […]

Teenage Kicks: Workshop

Glasgow Women's Library 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Glasgow Women’s Library will host a workshop in partnership with the University of Manchester on April 18th, inviting people to share their stories of life in the ‘60s in response to the stories exhibited in the Teenage Kicks exhibition, on show at Glasgow Women's Library from 8 March to 18th May. Booking The event is […]