Aberdeen Art Gallery has re-opened after a four year closure, during which it has undergone a multi-million pound refurbishment and extension. This is the first of a several short blog posts highlighting individual items of interest. Aberdeen Art Gallery I -Majel Davidson and Gushetneuk Pottery Room 6 contains displays of tableware, drinking vessels and utensils. It includes an earthenware …
As the exhibition explains: “when Patience Schell, Chair in Hispanic Studies, wanted her course on women’s history in Chile and Mexico to help students connect with the people they were learning about, she asked students to make arpilleras ( fabric tapestries) and write about the process as part of their assessment.” The end result forms …
On Tuesday last week I was lucky to get a ticket for the sold out screening of ‘Her Century: Scotland’s Women on Film‘ at the GFT in Glasgow. Loved seeing this film this evening with @VAWright10 . Great to see the real lives of Scottish women – although with a few minor celebrities thrown in …
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Aberdeen Central Library recently hosted an exhibition on Nursing during the Spanish flu epidemic. The information boards and short films shown were produced by the Florence Nightingale Museum, and are supplemented by material from Aberdeen City Archives. The public launch of the exhibition was held on Wednesday, 10 April, with a short introduction by Lord Provost …
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Stewart Park, Hilton, Aberdeen is not one of Aberdeen’s showcase public parks. Opened in 1894 it has become run down. Aberdeen Women’s Alliance proposed to create information boards in Stewart Park which would both enhance the park and include some women’s history on each board. These are all now in situ, and I walked round …
https://twitter.com/MaryQueenMovie/status/1079082160026398720 You may be expecting, or hoping, that this review is written by a historian with the knowledge and experience to say something clever about how closely the film resembles what actually happened in the past and the ways it deviates from it. That would be a logical assumption since this is Women’s History Scotland. …
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John Sinclair House, 16 Bernard Terrace, Edinburgh, houses the Historic Environment Scotland archive. During December HES displayed materials from the archive showcasing the work of female architects. These included Kathleen Anne Veitch (1908-1968), who in 1930 was featured on the front page of the Daily Mirror as one of the women of the year. …
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As part of the Rise Up, Quines! Festival, a north east launch of New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women was held at Aberdeen Central Library on Thursday, 15 November. During the Festival, the library hosted a week-long display provided by Glasgow Women’s Library, and featured selections of books of interest. At the launch, four of …
As part of the Rise Up, Quines! Festival, there was a Civic Reception in Aberdeen’s Town House at which a plaque to suffragette Caroline Phillips was to have been unveiled. Owing to a delay, a cardboard facsimile was unveiled instead. A plaque to Caroline Phillips was first mooted over a decade ago, and Aberdeen City …
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Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society created an exhibition on Medical and Nursing Services during World War One entitled ‘A Tribute to the work of the Medical and Nursing Services during World War 1‘. This exhibition was presented at three locations in November; Woodend Hospital, the Suttie Centre, Foresterhill and at John Lewis. I caught up with it …
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