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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Our Values
      • GWL Aims and Objectives
      • GWL Policies and Reports
      • GWL Privacy Policy
    • Our History
      • Glasgow Women’s Library: A Timeline
      • Past Events & Projects at GWL
    • Our Team
      • Library Staff
        • Lifelong Learning
        • Adult Literacy & Numeracy
        • BME Women’s Project
        • GWL Across Scotland – Our National Lifelong Learning Project
        • The Lending Library
        • The Women’s Archive
        • The Volunteer Programme
      • Board of Directors
      • The Broader GWL Team
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  • Explore Our Collections
    • The Lending Library
      • Search our Books
    • The Archive Collection
      • Search the Archive
      • The Lesbian Archive
      • LGBTQ Collections Online Resource
        • Early Lesbian and Gay Publications
        • Feminism and Lesbian Politics
        • We Recruit!: Campaigns and Organisations
        • The Personal is Political: Lesbian Life
        • LGBTQ Life in Scotland
        • LGBTQ Collections Online Resource: Bibliography
    • The Museum Collection
      • Search Our Museum Objects
      • Women Making an Exhibition of Themselves
      • National Museum of Roller Derby
      • #MyMuseum
    • Online Exhibitions
    • Reading Ideas
      • Book Reviews
      • Readers of Colour Recommends
      • Reading for Wellbeing
      • Pulp Queens
      • Recommend a Book
    • From the Archive
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    • Donate books or archive material
      • Our book wish list
      • Journals we’re looking for
    • Information for Publishers
  • Discover Our Projects
    • Bold Types
      • Bold Types 2020 Finalists
    • Lesbian Lives: Revealing Hidden Herstories
    • Vote 100: The Moving Story
      • Vote 100: The Films
      • Vote 100: The Map
      • Vote 100: Suffragists
      • Vote 100: Suffragettes
      • Vote 100: Activists
      • Vote 100: Toolkit for Schools
      • Vote 100: More Women Who Campaigned For Women’s Right to Vote
    • Stride with Pride: LGBTQ Heritage Trail
    • Equality in Progress
      • Equality in Progress Report: Research from a grassroots museum
      • Decoding Inequality
        • Decoding Inequality Sector Report 2019
        • Decoding Inequality: Online Exhibition
          • When we are not seen, heard or recognised
          • When we are not treated equally by the law and the state
          • When we do not have equal access to health care
          • When society assigns us roles based on aspects of our identity
          • When we lack control over how we are represented
    • Women in the Landscape
    • Open the Door
      • Open the Door 2020
      • Open the Door 2019
      • Open the Door 2018
      • Open the Door 2017
    • Herland
    • Collect:if
    • Women Make History
      • Women’s Heritage Walks
        • West End Women’s Heritage Walk
        • East End Women’s Heritage Walk
        • Women of the Merchant City
        • Garnethill Women’s Heritage Walk
        • Women of the Gorbals Heritage Walk
        • Glasgow’s Women and the Necropolis
        • Suffragette City East Trail
        • Suffragette City West Trail
      • Heritage Walk Audio Tours
        • West End Women’s Heritage Walk Audio Tour
        • Deutsche Audioführung der Frauengeschichte im Glasgower West End
        • East End Women’s Heritage Walk Audio Tour
        • French Spoken East End Audio Tour (Français)
        • Polish Spoken East End Audio Tour (Polski)
        • German Spoken East End Audio Tour (Deutsch)
      • East End Women’s Heritage Bike Ride
      • March of Women
      • Voices from the Belvidere
      • Women Making History in West Dunbartonshire
        • The Histories of Women in West Dunbartonshire in the 1950s and 1960s
        • Explore the Memory Box
        • A Girl’s Career
        • Those Were the Days
        • A 1960s Wedding
        • Home Life
    • Seeing Things
    • Across Scotland
      • Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland
      • Women Making History in West Dunbartonshire
    • Reading Groups
      • The Book Group
      • Readers of Colour
      • Digital Book Group
    • Past Events & Projects
      • Linder Sterling’s Bower of Bliss
      • Speaking Out: Recalling Women’s Aid in Scotland
        • Speaking Out: Oral history clips
        • Speaking Out: The Film
        • The Speaking Out Publication: 40 Years of Women’s Aid in Scotland
        • History Safe: Archive Toolkit
        • Speaking Out Learning Resource
        • The Speaking Out Blog
      • Women’s History Unwrapped with the Travelling Gallery Project
      • In Her Shoes – Hearing Women’s Experiences of Hate Crime
        • No-one who harms me will go unpunished. I am a woman.
        • In Her Shoes – Women and Hate Crime Resources
      • small white monkeys
      • 21 Revolutions
        • Buy the 21 Revolutions publication
        • 21 Revolutions: The Artists
        • Ripples on the Pond – Artist Interviews
        • 21 Revolutions: The Writers
        • 21 Revolutions Podcast
        • The 21 Revolutions Kickstarter Campaign and Backers
        • Ripples on the Pond – Artist Interviews
      • Speaking Volumes
      • Young Critics
      • Sex in the Women’s Library
        • What is Sexology?
        • Sex Between the Covers: Exhibited Items
        • Sex between the covers: The publication
        • Sex in the Women’s Library: The Film
        • What Women Talk About When They Talk About Sex
        • Sex Between the Covers: Zine Library
        • New Writing About Sex in the Women’s Library
          • Death and Birth of a Woman Warrior
          • A Woman’s Complaint
          • Moonlight
        • Women Making a Show of Themselves
        • Sex in the Women’s Library blog
        • Sex in the Women’s Library: Suggested Reading
        • Sex in the Women’s Library: The Film Season
        • Sexology Playlist: The Soundtrack To Our Season
        • Sex in the Women’s Library: Credits and Thanks
      • Mixing The Colours
        • Mixing The Colours: The Story So Far
        • Mixing the Colours Conference 2015
        • Mixing the Colours Podcasts
        • Mixing The Colours Film
        • Mixing The Colours Publication
        • Mixing The Colours Resource
      • Pulp Queens: Femmes Fatales and Fragile Frails
      • HOUSE WORK CASTLE MILK WOMAN HOUSE
        • About Castlemilk Womanhouse
        • The Castlemilk Womanhouse Archive
        • Castlemilk Womanhouse Artists & Artworks
        • Cock and Bull Culture by Rachael Harris
        • HOUSE WORK CASTLE MILK WOMAN HOUSE – Essay by Dr Adele Patrick
        • HOUSE WORK CASTLE MILK WOMAN HOUSE Interviews
        • Castlemilk Womanhouse Bibliography
      • Artist in Residence for the Women of Glasgow
      • Celebrating Commonwealth Women Writing
      • Reader in Residence Magi Gibson
      • Badges of Honour
      • Illuminated Letters
      • Pioneering Podcasts
      • One Small Step
      • Making Space
      • Feminist Lines of Flight
  • Get Involved
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