Next month we’ll be celebrating LGBT+ history in Scotland. This post is pinned to the top of this page and will be updated regularly with upcoming online events, exhibitions, film screenings etc. Please get in touch if you have an event you would like to promote! What is Queer Heritage? How intimacies and desires shape …
Looking ahead to LGBT+ history month – February 2021 Read More »
Here at Women’s History Scotland we’re delighted to be working with Thistles & Dandelions, Empower Women for Change’s first Heritage Project. The project’s aim is to highlight Glasgow women’s history in the last 50–100 years in terms of women’s role and contribution to their households and communities both domestically and/or economically, which has been largely hidden …
The Sue Innes Memorial Lecture is held annually in memory of Sue Innes, feminist historian, campaigner and journalist, who died in 2005. Sue was an enthusiastic member of Women’s History Scotland (then known as Scottish Women’s History Network). She was one of the editors of The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, which is dedicated to her. Sue was a …
BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Time Travels’ series presented by the fantastic Sue Morrison and produced by Dr Louise Yeoman is back with the usual great line up of episodes looking at variety of aspects of Scottish history from the sex and the single girl to boys in trouble. The new series features a number of our Women’s …
The ramifications of the coronavirus lockdown have demonstrated that we are now in an age of no-return when it comes to online research using digital resources. This is not to say that the path of online research is always clear (literally): dirty OCR, obscured digital images, and unclear metadata can impede the process and frustrate …
We are delighted that two of our Steering Committee members, Tanya Cheadle and Hannah Telling will be leading on an Online Course (or MOOC for those of you in the know) for ‘Future Learn at the University of Glasgow. The course is entitled ‘A Global History of Sex and Gender‘. Both Tanya and Hannah are …
Last month Dr t s Beall and all the team at Protests & Suffragettes launched a crowdfunder to help them ‘highlight the gallus women behind Scotland’s radical history’ and create engaging resources for young people across Scotland: Their aim is to educate people across Scotland, and especially young people, about Scotland’s suffragettes and radical women …
This week we are celebrating adding the 900th memorial to our project ‘Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland‘. The 900th Memorial is a statue of May Donoghue by artist Mandy Mcintosh. Steering Committee member Alison McCall was quoted in an article in The Scotsman: “This is often known as the story of ‘the snail and …
Mapping Memorials to Women in Scotland – 900th memorial! Read More »
‘Time Travels’ with Susan Morrison returned to BBC Radio Scotland for the latest series last month. If you’ve missed the first half of the series don’t worry – you can catch up on BBC Sounds. Several members of our Steering Committee have appeared, or will be appearing, in this series: Me (21 June) on housing …
We were sad to hear of the passing of Aileen Christianson who was well known to several members of our Steering Committee. Here Esther Breitenbach writes about the contribution Aileen made to women’s history in Scotland. In her professional life, Aileen was one of the longstanding editors of the letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh …
