Posts tagged with ‘History’

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.

Women In The War Zone

A vivid portrait of the sordid reality of war, but also of the bravery and generosity of the women who fought against it

Captured Hearts: New Brunswick’s War Brides

Melynda Jarratt, author of “War Brides” and “Captured Hearts” visits from Canada along with Mrs Boone, genuine war bride returning to her original home country, to talk about Melynda’s new book and Mrs Boone’s many wonderful experiences.

She settles in the Shields

This exhibition at the Tramway offers a unique opportunity to meet the women who travelled to Scotland from all over the world, in search of family, love and security.

Glasgow’s Women and the Necropolis

The first trial run of a walk based in the Glasgow Necropolis, this walk is free.