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.
Story Café is great if you’re new to reading, are struggling to find the time to read, or just want to sit back, relax and enjoy listening to stories and poems being read aloud.
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!
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.
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.
Discover the stories of the women that made Scottish history through the objects they left behind!
Story Café is great if you’re new to reading, are struggling to find the time to read, or just want to sit back, relax and enjoy listening to stories and poems being read aloud.
The joy of making music together is what Utter, singing group with a difference, is all about. No need to read music, or have singing experience. Come to as many sessions as you like!
Ever wanted to know more about what makes us tick? About how we work? Learn a bit more about our history? Or meet some of the team? Is so then do come and meet us at our next This Is Who We Are open session
Join us for a range of GWL’s bitesize learning including scrapbooking, badge making, African beadwork, film screenings and much more. THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED.
Working with textile artist Paria Goodarzi, women from Sakina Group in Glasgow have designed their own creative prints for scarves. This exhibition showcases their work which uses symbols, images and empowering statements to explore and celebrate women’s activism.
Take a peek at some of our literary treasures, from poetry to pulp fiction at our Women’s Words exhibition. We will showcase celebrated writers from our Open the Door Festival.
Come connect to your writing and celebrate the changing seasons with our series of three gentle creative writing sessions. Wrap up warm and bring along a thermos of tea for these workshops in the atmospheric (but chilly) Secret Garden, hidden in the heart of Edinburgh.
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.
Creative Writing for Fearties: Create fantastic fiction & ravishing rhymes using the Girls’ Annuals in our collection.
Take a stroll through this atmospheric Victorian cemetery while our tour guides dig the dirt on Victorian society, unearthing women’s achievements and bringing back to life the notorious and forgotten women buried there.
Come find ‘Tiny Territories’; an exhibition of paper sculptures & photos of unnoticed objects & places.
Story Café is great if you’re new to reading, are struggling to find the time to read, or just want to sit back, relax and enjoy listening to stories and poems being read aloud.
Drama Queens: informal play readings where no lines need to be learned
Glasgow Women's Library will be closed for the Easter long weekend, from Friday 19th April to Monday 22nd April.
Hear from owners of Category Is Books, Glasgow's first Queer bookshop, and have a look around the stalls of Glasgow Zine Fair.
Learn about the women’s activism and suffrage movement in Britain that inspired the textile designs at this celebratory event. This event has been postponed until Tuesday 23rd April.
Come along to our Edinburgh reading group and discover new women writers of colour.
Story Café is great if you’re new to reading, are struggling to find the time to read, or just want to sit back, relax and enjoy listening to stories and poems being read aloud.
Grab your free book, tune into our story-themed soundtrack, and try your luck at our fiendishly fun book quiz.
Join our Seeing Things group for the world premiere of an adaptation of Muriel Spark's Abbess of Crewe! As always, it will also be a lovely opportunity to meet like-minded folks, to get to know GWL, and to see which creative masterpieces one of the many groups who are active within GWL have managed to produce.
Join us for the worldwide premiere of a dramatic reading of GWL’s Drama Queens adaptation of Muriel Spark’s The Abbess of Crewe.
The joy of making music together is what Utter, singing group with a difference, is all about. No need to read music, or have singing experience. Come to as many sessions as you like!
Join us for a range of GWL’s bitesize learning including scrapbooking, badge making, African beadwork, film screenings and much more.
The Reading group for Muslim Women brings together women interested in books written by Muslim women or with a focus on women’s issue.
Share food and conversation at the launch of Be Like Teflon, a new artist book by Jasleen Kaur.
Come connect to your writing and celebrate the changing seasons with our series of three gentle creative writing sessions. Wrap up warm and bring along a thermos of tea for these workshops in the atmospheric (but chilly) Secret Garden, hidden in the heart of Edinburgh.
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.
Within Garnethill’s confined boundaries we 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.
Prepare to be dazzled by the epic, untold story of Virginia Hall, a fearless American woman who infiltrated wartime France to become the Gestapo’s most wanted Allied Spy.
Join us for guided tours through the current contemporary art exhibitions at Talbot Rice Gallery ('Borderlines', https://www.ed.ac.uk/talbot-rice/exhibitions/borderlines) and Fruitmarket Gallery ('Senga Nengudi', https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/exhibitions/senga-nengudi/) in Edinburgh!
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.
