Posts tagged with ‘women’s history’

Clydebank women’s history group

The Clydebank Women’s History Group have now finished their second term of researching women’s history in Clydebank. The group have been meeting since October 2010 at Dalmuir Community Centre and have enjoyed getting together with tutor Ronnie Scott, chatting, reminiscing and planning their research. They visited the Mitchell Library archive where they found some material [...]

New GWL satellite collections around Scotland

National lifelong learning has been out on the road again delivering our new satellite collections to various locations. Each satellite collection is a small “mini women’s library” tailor-made to suit a particular group or location then installed at venues such as community centres, public libraries and other community venues. In February I travelled to Stirling [...]

Women’s Work in the Highlands

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 [...]