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, […]
This exhibition celebrates women blowing their own trumpets in the fight for equality from 1980 to 1990. Glasgow Women’s Library came into being partly in response to the overarching masculine narratives in Glasgow’s approach to being a European City of Culture in 1990. The exhibition includes posters and photographs from GWL’s archive and features the […]
How can cities be greener, wilder, more inclusive, liveable and poetic? Join author May East and award-winning architect Jude Barber for readings and conversation to celebrate the launch of May’s book What if Women Designed the City? The book draws from in-depth walking interviews with 274 women from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Perth, and offers 33 […]
