Glasgow Women’s Library

To mark the launch of our Merchant City Women’s Heritage map Glasgow Women’s Library are holding our Women of the Merchant City Walking Tour.

Now that our Spring programme is well underway we have been planning the summer months, always ahead of the seasons! What an exciting programme of events it is going to be! GWL will be popping-up in a few places.

Do you have a favourite woman, place, building, or organisation you would like to know more about? Interested in researching the first women’s refuge or the meetings of the women’s suffrage movement? We can help!

Over 120 women were inspired to take One Small Step and participate in our one day conference at the Mitchell Library on Tuesday 23rd March 2010. Delegates of all ages and backgrounds came from across Scotland, including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Alloa, Dumfries and Galloway, Ayrshire, Fife and Stirling and participated in our day of talks [...]

GWL lifelong learning staff travelled to Dundee International Women’s Centre in February and March as part of our National Lifelong Learning programme. Morag and Syma led a session introducing GWL’s mobile exhibition She Settles in the Shields. This exhibition tells the untold stories of migrant women in Pollokshields. Told in their own words, the women [...]

Taster session for our Researching Your Local History course, find out more about the course and see if you would be interested in taking your interest in Women’s History to the next level.

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.

On International Women’s Day join us for a special exhibition for the launch of Glasgow Women’s Aid publication “A Way With Words” from women who have lived with and left abusers.

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.

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.