February Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. In the current climate, our Book Picnic takes place remotely, giving all of us...
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On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. In the current climate, our Book Picnic takes place remotely, giving all of us...
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On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. In the current climate, our Book Picnic takes place remotely, giving all of us...
View ArticleMay’s Digital Book Group Read: Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick
The next book which we will be reading in the Digital Book Group is Alice Hattrick’s Ill Feelings, an intrepid, galvanising meditation on illness, disability, feminism, and what it means to be alive....
View ArticleMay Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. In the current climate, our Book Picnic takes place remotely, giving all of us...
View ArticleA Striking Lens: Recent Additions Recognising Women’s Art
As the Glasgow Women’s Library continues to acquire more books, I will attempt to highlight some of the recent additions that I found very intriguing. There are three books in particular which have...
View ArticleJune Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic. This was our first Book Picnic in person in a long while, and what a joy it was...
View ArticleIngrid Pollard: Carbon slowly turning
Reviewed by Caroline. When Carbon Slowly Turning, a new book that gives a stunning overview of artist and photographer Ingrid Pollard’s practice, spanning 40 years, arrived at Glasgow Women’s library I...
View ArticleNew books for you to borrow
Becoming Mila by Estelle Maskame Fiction Meet Milla. Sixteen years old, an ordinary LA girl…except for her A-list actor dad. With his next big movie premiere on the horizon, the media spotlight is...
View ArticleBlog 2 – My Book Recommendation
What does pink remind you of? Dark Pink? Think. Imagine. Focus. On this commonly stereotyped colour. Did you imagine something? Women? No, don’t focus. Let it all go away. Like dust flying from sands....
View ArticleNew Books To Borrow
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World by Kate Pankhurst Full of beautiful illustrations, this book allows an introduction into some of the great women who helped change the world throughout...
View ArticleBlog 3 – Reflections before Christmas
Nearly half way there. I want to share that my first project, transforming digital evaluation strategies for GWL’s 30th anniversary, is sadly, coming to an end. Not just yet but soon. What I mean by...
View ArticleFebruary Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic: This blog post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0...
View ArticleDrawn Together: volume 1: Rewilding
Zohra reviews Rewilding… Rewilding is a dynamic practice in Drawn Together Volume 1: Rewilding. The collection of visual stories by ‘international feminist collective’ Drawn Together invites the reader...
View ArticleMarch Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic: Finally, we would like to mention our World Book Night event, which will take...
View ArticleSuffragette – My Story by Carol Drinkwater
Set in the early days of the Suffragette movement in the early 1900’s, Dollie Baxter, a curious teenager, lets us into the diary of her new life from destitute working class family to ward of a very...
View ArticleApril Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic: Finally, we would like to mention our World Book Night event, which will take...
View ArticleMay Book Picnic Recommendations
On the first Wednesday of every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read recently at our Book Picnic: This blog post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0...
View ArticleOpen The Door 2023: Lines of Flight and my personal journey
Hi there! This is Aishwarya (she/her), a placement volunteer at my Glasgow Women’s Library. I have been working in this space since 19 September 2022 and my placement came to an official completion on...
View ArticleOpen The Doors – recommendations and reflections
I am back! Before I let you dive into the amazing recommendations to come, I would like to share some more insights into myself. I am hoping some of you have read my previous blogs on my placement...
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