This lively and welcoming women’s history group, supported by Glasgow Women’s Li-brary, celebrate the histories of local women, from artists and suffragettes to their own mothers and grandmothers.
Think lunchtime is just about what’s on your sandwich? Think again! Pull up at chair at our weekly Story Café, sit back with your cuppa and travel the world, one tale at a time. We’ve read about barefoot, pioneering climbers in Snowdonia, globe-trotting, fearless matriarchs from India, and fabled heroines on dangerous quests in Afghanistan.
Exhibition launch of 'Material Matters' which shares the works created during the project by women at workshops across Scotland. Material Matters involved women of different ages and cultures in the creation of sewn wall hangings inspired by each person’s emotional attachment to a textile that has a story to tell: a grandmother’s quilt, a child’s dungarees, a Palestinian embroidery, a wedding dress.
Check out some of the useful, quaint and downright outrageous advice contained in the archives of Glasgow Women’s Library and the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive. Choose your favourites as we create our own exhibition of some of the top tips and short films.
Following its triumphant launch in September at GWL, March is now making its way around Scotland.
Material Matters involved women of different ages and cultures in the creation of sewn wall hangings inspired by each person’s emotional attachment to a textile that has a story to tell: a grandmother’s quilt, a child’s dungarees, a Palestinian embroidery, a wedding dress. This exhibition shares the works created during the project by women at workshops across Scotland.
The women of the East End have always had to be industrious and resourceful simply to survive. This guided walking tour focuses on some of their achievements and struggles, and the radical nature of the area which gave birth to them.
Celebrate International Women’s Day at GWL with stories, images and songs from Rachel Dawick who researched the stories of trailblazing women who left the UK and all they knew behind to start a new life on the other side of the world in New Zealand in 1800s. These stories turned into songs, a book and a final show; ‘The Boundary Riders’.
This lively and welcoming women’s history group, supported by Glasgow Women’s Li-brary, celebrate the histories of local women, from artists and suffragettes to their own mothers and grandmothers.
Think lunchtime is just about what’s on your sandwich? Think again! Pull up at chair at our weekly Story Café, sit back with your cuppa and travel the world, one tale at a time. We’ve read about barefoot, pioneering climbers in Snowdonia, globe-trotting, fearless matriarchs from India, and fabled heroines on dangerous quests in Afghanistan.
In the first of her visits to GWL this spring, Ajay Close will be in conversation with GWL's own Donna Moore about her novel 'A Petrol Scented Spring' which looks at a turbulent time in Scottish suffragette history and portrays the real people on both sides of the struggle.
If you are interested in joining the Seeing Things group, which gives women the opportunity to see things like art exhibitions and theatre, together with other women, please get in touch with GWL or join the Seeing Things Planning meetings this Spring to find out more.
Glasgow International 2016 Director’s Programme artist Sheila Hicks presents an artist talk on her pioneering textile works and practice.
This lively and welcoming women’s history group, supported by Glasgow Women’s Li-brary, celebrate the histories of local women, from artists and suffragettes to their own mothers and grandmothers.
Scottish Women’s Aid has a proud forty year history of working to address domestic abuse in Scotland. To mark this, a project has been launched to capture the stories of those who have been involved.
Think lunchtime is just about what’s on your sandwich? Think again! Pull up at chair at our weekly Story Café, sit back with your cuppa and travel the world, one tale at a time. We’ve read about barefoot, pioneering climbers in Snowdonia, globe-trotting, fearless matriarchs from India, and fabled heroines on dangerous quests in Afghanistan.
In partnership with National Galleries Scotland, we have arranged a unique opportunity for women to join in supported group visits to this major new exhibition which features Scottish Women painters and sculptors from 1885-1965.
They say that everyone has a book in them. Have you always wanted to let your creative muse out of her cage, but not known where to start? Well, we have the very thing for you: our fear-free creative writing workshop is a great place to write creatively and feel that creative spark in the supportive company of others.
Experience our fantastic women’s history walking tour which digs the dirt on Victorian society, unearths women’s achievements and exhumes the histories of women buried in Glasgow’s Necropolis, as featured in Clare Balding’s book Walking Home. Our tour guides will tell the stories of both the notorious and forgotten women buried in these atmospheric surroundings.
This lively and welcoming women’s history group, supported by Glasgow Women’s Li-brary, celebrate the histories of local women, from artists and suffragettes to their own mothers and grandmothers.
Think lunchtime is just about what’s on your sandwich? Think again! Pull up at chair at our weekly Story Café, sit back with your cuppa and travel the world, one tale at a time. We’ve read about barefoot, pioneering climbers in Snowdonia, globe-trotting, fearless matriarchs from India, and fabled heroines on dangerous quests in Afghanistan.
Ajay Close will read from and talk about her latest book, 'A Petrol Scented Spring,' a timely exploration of the heroic struggles of the Scottish Suffragettes held in Perth Prison and their treatment at the hands of ruthless prison doctor Hugh Ferguson Watson.
The Library will be closed over the Easter Weekend, from Friday 25th to Monday 28th March. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Women are under represented on Wikipedia and most Wikipedia editors are men. We're open to redress this a little by hosting a Wikipedia Editathon.
Bring along a bite of lunch and relax while you listen to specially selected stories and powerful poetry handpicked from the rich GWL collection of women writers being read out loud and bring your own thoughts to the supportive discussion.
Think lunchtime is just about what’s on your sandwich? Think again! Pull up at chair at our weekly Story Café, sit back with your cuppa and travel the world, one tale at a time. We’ve read about barefoot, pioneering climbers in Snowdonia, globe-trotting, fearless matriarchs from India, and fabled heroines on dangerous quests in Afghanistan.
Launch Event and introductory session for Remembering Women Peace Crusaders; a new series of history workshops.
From the well-known to unsung heroines, this friendly and informal event will include short talks, a fun women’s quiz, discussion and hands on activities to give you an introduction to Glasgow Women’s Library and some of the women’s heritage projects happening across Scotland.
Out tour guides lead you around Garnethill’s confined boundaries to spotlight the women who pioneered European art movements, designed banners for suffragette processions, created the first women’s library in Scotland and made Garnethill the most exciting cultural and multicultural hotspot in Glasgow.
