Our archivist, Nicola Maksymuik, and her team explore some of the fascinating and unique items to be found in the archive collections.
The latest additions to the archive can be seen here.
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Being an archive volunteer at GWL
Archive volunteer Jenny writes about the day-to-day activities involved in volunteering with GWL’s archive collections
Cataloguing the collection of housing activist Cathy McCormack
The collection of Glasgow-based global community anti-poverty activist Cathy McCormack now catalogued and accessible
Valentine’s Day: Love and Loathing in Postcards of the Suffrage Age
My PhD research focusses on several themes that emerge in ‘comic’ anti-suffrage / anti-women postcards produced by private companies between 1900 and 1930, and also examines the handwritten messages on the back of the postcards to add insight into societal attitudes at the time.
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Touch Tales celebrates and addresses our need for more wide-spread and unashamed acts of platonic connection and care. Through storytelling, writing, conversation and gentle sensation-led movement, we invite you to share your histories and memories of meaningful touch.