Posts tagged with ‘History’

Callout: Second-wave feminism in NE Scotland, 1972-1990

Glasgow Women’s Library needs your stories! Were you: Involved in Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp? Active in the socialist and feminists movements between 1972-1990? Active in the North-East of Scotland around the same time?

West End Women’s Heritage Walk

Back by popular demand, this pioneering women’s heritage walk, developed by women historians at GWL, reveals a hidden history of the West End: pipe-smoking forewomen, revolting schoolmistresses, and the unique car made by and for women. An intriguing, inspiring insight into the hitherto unsung women who made the West End.

The Lamplighter

A stunningly rich text with strong contemporary overtones.

Wigtown Women’s Walk launched on International Women’s Day

Glasagow Women’s Library at Wigtown Women’s walk launch.

Firebrand Women

GWL and WEA have teamed up to provide a programme of talks about women campaigners, this session is The Rent Strikes: the militant women who took on the slum land lords Taking place at St Mungo’s Museum.

Firebrand Women

GWL and WEA have teamed up to provide a programme of talks about women campaigners, this session is Chartists: the ‘Brazen Faced Jades’ who formed the backbone of Britain’s first mass working class movement. Taking place at The People’s Palace.

Firebrand Women

GWL and WEA have teamed up to provide a programme of talks about women campaigners, this session is Women and the Abolition Movement: the revolutionary women who fought against slavery Taking place at Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art.

Firebrand Women

GWL and WEA have teamed up to provide a programme of talks about women campaigners, this session is The Temperance Movement: the bold women who tackled the curse of the bottle. Taking place at St Mungo’s Museum.

Firebrand Women

GWL and WEA have teamed up to provide a programme of talks about women campaigners, starting with Suffragettes & First Wave Feminism: the brave women who fought for women’s right to vote. Taking place at St Andrew’s in the Square.

Women’s Work in the Highlands

This free conference looking at working women in the Highlands and the history of women’s work will take place at the new Highlands Archive Centre, Inverness.