Last Thursday night (24th August) the Kinning Park Complex‘s weekly Community Meal took the form of a special event to mark UNESCO‘s designated ‘International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition’. Organised by poet and author Kate Tough, this was a thought provoking and energising evening of lovely food (provided by Küche), …
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Last month to mark the beginning of Euro 2017 Channel 4 screened a documentary about the fascinating history of women’s football entitled ‘When Football Banned Women‘. In this post Dr Fiona Skillen (Glasgow Caledonian University) tells us more about the history of women’s football in Scotland: Adapted from F. Skillen, Women, Sport and Modernity in Interwar Britain (Oxford: …
This month in Glasgow there are two photography exhibitions which are a must see for anyone interested in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland in the 1970s and for those of us who love Lost Glasgow on facebook. So on Saturday I dragged my wee one along and saw the two exhibits in one day: First, ‘Scotland’s …
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Dr Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark This blog post first featured on the North American Conference on British Studies website on 10 April 2015 – http://www.nacbs.org/blog/finding-margaret-morice/ Detail from: Milne, Alexander, fl. 1789-1818, ‘A plan of the City of Aberdeen with all the inclosures surrounding the town to the adjacent country, from a survey taken 1789’, http://maps.nls.uk/towns/rec/311. …
Dr Elizabeth Ritchie (University of the Highlands and Islands) I have a favourite set of placemats. They feature old photos of men and women engaged in crofting activities: cutting peat, winnowing corn, manuring fields. Although crofting was a marginal form of part-time agriculture forced on the people, by the mid-nineteenth century the work, and the …
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Today the 8th of March is International Women’s Day – we couldn’t let the day pass without drawing attention to some of the great initiatives promoting their work in relation to gender equality and women’s history! Engender Scotland have launched their new new site #makingworkvisible to chart women’s work in Scotland – paid and unpaid: …
Aberdeen Women’s Alliance organises workshops on researching women’s history. These workshops are aimed at the general public, who might not know what sources are available to those with no formal research experience. Yesterday (22 Feb 2017) archivist Fiona Musk displayed a range of items from the NHS Grampian archive from the C18th to the mid …
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Image ©John Byrne On Saturday afternoon I went to see John Byrne’s ‘Cutting a Rug’ at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow. The Second Part of Byrne’s ‘Slab Boys’ Trilogy it is set on the night of the ‘staffie’ in Paisley Town Hall in 1957. As the production website states: John Byrne’s funny and poignant Slab …
This week the Scottish government announced that from July 2017, funding from the devolved administration will be handed to charities on a three-year basis instead of every 12 months. Equalities secretary Angela Constance suggested that the change will “provide greater clarity and reassurance” to charities . https://twitter.com/EngenderScot/status/832197184082870273 © Scottish Women’s Aid Archive at Glasgow Women’s …
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Glasgow Councillor Nina Baker has put forward a motion to be discussed this Thursday (February 16 Feb) that proposes renaming streets in Glasgow named after the city’s sugar barons and tobacco lords, whose businesses were built on slavery. She suggests that instead such streets should be named after women who fought for abolition or equality …
