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Not just any old Monday morning

Happy International Women’s Day!
We have already had a whirl wind time, with a visit from Nicola Sturgeon MSP (Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Health & Wellbeing) to launch ‘A Way With Words’, the new publication of poems, stories and artworks from Glasgow Women’s Aid.
As I write, over 60 women are here at the [...]

Making Space: Archive Hour

Artist Nicky Bird is working to capture the uniqueness of Glasgow Women’s Library, within the medium of sound!

‘Travelling the Distance’ and the Scottish Parliament

After a few weeks of revising plans, pleading emails, panicked phone calls, the Making Space focus group and the Political Literacy group made it to Holyrood…

GWL Annual Report 2008-9

Our annual report for 2008-2009 is now available to download.

GWL Spring Collection

Check out the new GWL Spring 2010 Collection. An exclusive look at the newest range of learning and events taking place over the next few months.

Flooding at Glasgow Women’s Library

Our office was flooded after cracked pipes on the floors above the Library burst in the wake of the thaw. Please check the website for updates.

Launching Lesbians on the Shelf, with Zoe Strachan

The Lesbian Archives, as an important part of the GWL collection, will be relocating with us to refurbished premises at Glasgow’s prestigious Mitchell Library in the next year.
The entire collection, which is currently being catalogued by our newly appointed Archivist, will be fully accessible in a dedicated archive so that it will be preserved [...]

Women of Clydebank – past and present

The women of the WEA Clydebank group have been meeting for many years every Wednesday morning. GWL visited them recently as part of the National Lifelong Learning Development Project and discovered a wealth of experience and fascinating stories. We talked about the lives of many women in Clydebank, including Mary Preston who worked as a [...]

16 Days of Action

Today marks the start of 16 Days of Action For The Elimination of Violence Against Women, which runs from 25th November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, until International Human Rights Day on 10th December.

What do you get for the woman who gives everything?

This Christmas do something special for the woman you love: give her a unique gift that will last a lifetime with Women on the Shelf!