Last week Morag and I travelled to Wigtown to run an oral histories workshop at the annual community festival. We drew into Wigtown square around 7 o’clock, in time to see a game of Bowls taking place in the green, and, just a few metres away, local children spilling out of the library – a lovely introduction to rural town life…
I spent a windswept afternoon on a hilltop in Renfrewshire on Wednesday 23rd June completing the Lapwing Lodge assault course. All in a days work, naturally – perhaps in the “any other duties” part of my job description! A group of girls from Glenburn in Paisley have been working with GWL as part of the [...]
Library staff and volunteers went on a road trip to Inverness just before Christmas to participate in the Women’s Work in the Highlands conference. This day event, organised in partnership by WEA Scotland, GWL and the Highland Archive Centre, was a chance to explore and celebrate the working lives of Highland women. There were inspirational [...]
Members of Wigtown Women’s Trail Group are busy researching and planning a fantastic women’s heritage walk in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway and you can follow their progress on the GWL website blog from the group. The group have been researching their walk for a few months now and are planning to launch the walk in [...]
