Glasgow Women’s Library

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!

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.

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.

GWL and WEA have teamed up to provide a programme of talks about women campaigners, this session is Second Wave Feminism and the Peace Movement: the strident women who strove for peace and women’s liberation . Taking place at Glasgow Women’s Library.

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.

Would you like to have a go at being a women’s history detective? A new group is being set up by Glasgow Women’s Library to investigate the women buried at Glasgow Necropolis.

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.

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 [...]