- 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?

We are currently gathering oral histories to feature as part of an International Women’s Day 2011 event in Aberdeen. The event will also showcase campaign materials, minutes, badges and other artefacts, photographs, personal letters and diaries. This exciting exhibition will become part of a permanent collection in the GWL Archives.

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We will be recording oral histories in the North-East of Scotland from July 2010 onwards, and accepting donations of relevant materials towards the end of 2010 (unfortunately no earlier than this, due to our imminent move to the Mitchell Library).

If you would like to contribute to the essential preservation of this important history, please contact Morag Smith, National Lifelong Learning Development Worker by email: morag.smith@womenslibrary.org.uk or telephone: 0141 552 8345.

All contributions will be subject to the conditions of Glasgow Women’s Library oral history copyright clearance and deposit policy. It will be necessary for all contributors to complete an oral history copyright clearance and deposit form.

This walk is running twice as part of the West End Festival 2010 on:

Sunday 20 June, 2pm or
Sunday 27 June, 2pm
Tickets: £6.50

To purchase your ticket(s) please visit Barretts News Agents on Byres Road (opposite Hillhead Underground Station). We cannot take bookings through the library. The start point of the walk is printed on the ticket.

Want to know more? We are holding a taster session so you can get more information and see if this is for you:

Taster: Wednesday 31 March, 10am – 12pm
Ten Week Course Starts: Wednesday 21 April, 10am – 12pm

The course runs for 10 weeks and will include visits to a museum and archive. Run by Ronnie Scott* in partnership with DACE at Glasgow University. This course is accredited, so you could receive 4 ACE points.

This course is ILA supported so you need to have this in place to begin. Click here to visit the ILA Scotland website for more information and to register online. If you need assistance just call the library and we can talk you through it, ask for Laura.

For more information or to book your place click here to send us an email or you can call us on 0141 552 8345

*please note this course is run by a male tutor

You might also be interested in attending The Digging Detectives first session on Tuesday 2 March 2010

The inaugural Wigtown Women's Walk

The walk, which celebrates the women of Wigtown past and present has been developed by the group over the last year. One of the original inspirations for it’s development was GWL’s own West End Women’s Heritage Walk and a talk given by volunteers from GWL’s Women Make History group. The launch was a unique event, attended by over 40 women from Wigtown and was based on the recreation of a tea party held in the town 170 years ago to commemorate the marriage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert. 30 “nymphs” from Wigtown who had “survived the frosts of 40 winters” were invited to the original event. The afternoon included displays, and talks from members of the walk group and talks on the GWL archive and GWL’s National Lifelong Learning programme.
GWL will be supporting the group in promoting the walk within the local community by running workshops at the town’s community festival in July. A self-guided booklet version of the walk is being developed by the group and will be available for anyone who wants to explore the walk on their own.