With the prevailing weather conditions during the weeks before christmas, our planned celebration and book launch for the Glenburn Girls group looked a bit touch and go. However, on Wednesday 22nd December Nisha and I, Renfrewshire libraries staff and a host of aunts, grannies, mums and dads, big sisters, baby brothers and friends did manage [...]
Hi – my name is Geraldine McAlinden. I am 32 years old and I am currently about to enter into my 4th year at Strathclyde University studying BA(Hons.) Arts and Social Sciences, majoring in History.
Hi, I’m Kriss, one of the members of Wigtown Women’s Walk Group. It doesn’t seem like only 15 months since the group was set up. That was back in April 2009, after an event I organised for International Women’s Day and invited Glasgow Women’s Library to do a presentation on their women’s heritage walks in [...]
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…
