Due to popular demand we have extended the celebration of 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.
Across the road from GWL is a new temporary orchard for people to acknowledge grief and imagine peaceful futures. Three artists respond to the themes of trees, hope and healing across this arbour and within the library space.
The Reading Group for Muslim Women brings together women interested in books written by Muslim women or with a focus on women’s issues.
Readers of Colour is a thriving community of Women* and Non-binary Readers of Colour who come together to read writing by Women and Non-binary Writers of Colour! We share our laughter and ideas over discussions about things like that month’s reading and community care. We meet every other month in Edinburgh, Glasgow and online. Book […]
Join us for a conversation, tea and games while we practise English and Scottish words and phrases and learn about each other’s lives and cultures.
Join us this Summer for a range of GWL’s bitesize feminist crafting including block printing, collage art, basket weaving, and much more.
Rediscover the joy of being read to, as we dip into stories and poems by some of the best women writers around.
This August Women Making It are joined by The National Gallery on their Art Road Trip for a family-friendly celebration of making.
Join us for a conversation, tea and games while we practise English and Scottish words and phrases and learn about each other’s lives and cultures.
Join us this Summer for a range of GWL’s bitesize feminist crafting including block printing, collage art, basket weaving, and much more.
Join us and our friends at the Goethe-Institut Glasgow in shedding light on a neglected history as we invite Annabelle Hirsch to discuss her book A History of Women in 101 Objects with GWL’s Donna Moore. From a hunger strike medal to a bidet, the Amazon rainforest to the plantations of South Carolina, Simone de […]
Story Café regular, Donna Moore, joins us to talk about her work-in-progress, the follow up to The Unpicking, set in 1921.
The Reading Group for Muslim Women brings together women interested in books written by Muslim women or with a focus on women’s issues.
Join us for a conversation, tea and games while we practise English and Scottish words and phrases and learn about each other’s lives and cultures.
On the launch date of her new book Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood, Helen Charman in conversation with Hannah Proctor will discuss the political act of motherhood. Mother State takes us from Women’s Liberation to austerity, meeting mothers fighting for alternative futures: lesbian squatters, antinuclear campaigners, wives of striking miners and teenage mothers […]
Join us this Summer for a range of GWL’s bitesize feminist crafting including block printing, collage art, basket weaving, and much more.
Follow our volunteer tour guides from the former Royal Maternity Hospital on Rottenrow to the medieval-looking Mercat Cross and the Tron clock through the streets of the Merchant City.
