@suejohn.bsky.social
A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
Three women in flowing dresses dance barefoot on a textured ground with swirling lines and small flowers around them.
It's #NationaIllustrationDay ✍️
Discover women illustrators in twentieth-century Britain 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/drawing-the-line-women-illustrators-in-twentieth-century-britain
'Spring Frieze' by Hannah Frank (1908–2008) © the artist's estate. 📷 Glasgow Women's Library
Hear from Anabel Marsh, Anna Forrest, & Beverly McFarlane, 3 of our History Detectives. Discover Jessie Stephen’s radical early activism, Rebecca Strong’s trailblazing nursing reforms, & the stark history of Glasgow’s Lock Hospitals for “Unfortunate Females.”
womenslibrary.org.uk/event/meet-t...
Text reads: the Archive and Museum Collections are closed to researchers from 1st December- 19th January to allow us to carry out essential work
Please note that our Archive and Museum Collections are closed to researchers throughout December, until 19th January.
24.11.2025 14:12 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0An updated list of prizes is here: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/11/05/g...
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THANK YOU to everyone who has bought raffle tickets for the @womenslibrary.bsky.social fundraiser. We really appreciate your support. The prizes are amazing! It will be drawn at our Festive Fayre - next Saturday, 29th November. Please buy a ticket if you can: womenslibrary.org.uk/shop/gwl-fes...
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Glasgow Women's Library's blond sandstone early 20th century building, with its decorative columns and stone details, in bright sunlight against a blue sky. A round sign - an art work - sticks out from the building and reads 'Give light and people will find the way'.
If you love what we do at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social - please support us. Buy a raffle ticket to help us to fundraise. It's so easy and we really need your support. You can buy raffle tickets here: womenslibrary.org.uk/shop/gwl-fes...
16.11.2025 15:13 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0It's here.
BAD LANGUAGE
13/11/25
"made with love and horror, & a guidebook for our time" — @adamzmith.bsky.social
"Mayer's words & a gift and a gateway" — @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social
"incantation & spell distil a complex argument" — Lola Olufemi
Pre-order: peninsulapress.co.uk/products/bad...
A colourful poster with a textured blue background promoting Glasgow Women’s Library’s Feminist Festive Fayre Raffle. Large pastel rainbow text reads: “Feminist Festive Fayre Raffle. £5 a ticket. Available to buy now from GWL!” Smaller text lists some prizes, including artworks by Ciara Phillips, Karla Black and Sam Ainsley, a meal for two from Outlier, a tour and tasting for two at the Clydeside Distillery, a collection of signed books and more. A banner at the bottom states: “Raffle will be called on Saturday 29th November at the Feminist Festive Fayre!”
We’re turning 35 next year! 🎉 As we gear up for major fundraising in 2026, our Feminist Festive Fayre Raffle is back & bigger than ever. £5 tickets available at Glasgow Women’s Library, with incredible prizes to be won. Draw on Sat 29 Nov at the Fayre.
More info: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/11/05/g...
A promotional poster for Glasgow Women’s Library titled “Meet the History Detectives.” The top section has the Glasgow Women’s Library logo and bold white text on a purple background. Below, three older women sit at a table smiling and discussing historical documents, books, and photographs. Behind them are monochrome illustrations of women from history. The lower section of the poster reads: “Thursday 27 November, 5.30pm – 7.00pm, Free, All Welcome.”
Meet the History Detectives 🕵️♀️
Hear short talks from Anabel Marsh, Anna Forrest & Beverly McFarlane, long-standing members of our History Detectives team. Topics include: Jessie Stephen, Rebecca Strong and Glasgow’s Lock Hospitals.
Book here: womenslibrary.org.uk/event/meet-t...
"For decades, Scotland’s girl bands were ignored, overlooked, or erased from the story." Now, Glasgow Women's Library says it will screen a film celebrating them.
11.11.2025 23:05 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
One year since the Since Yesterday film! Glasgow Women’s Library are doing a screening on Wed 13 Nov with a panel discussion celebrating the legacy and future of Scotland’s girl bands.
Tickets via sinceyesterdayfilm.com and womenslibrary.org.uk
Absolutely - the battles she had to fight.
01.11.2025 13:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We pay tribute to Elspeth King (and Smudge, the People's Palace cat) on our East End Heritage Walk. Rest in Power Elspeth.
womenslibrary.org.uk/discover-our...
We @womenslibrary.bsky.social are so sad to hear of the death of Elspeth King, writer, activist, curator of the People's Palace who fought so hard to collect & preserve Glasgow's social and working class histories. Her book 'The Hidden History Of Glasgow's Women: The THENEW Factor' is so important.
01.11.2025 12:46 — 👍 38 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 2📹 Join our Digital Marketing Modern Apprentice, Lola on a visit to Glasgow Women's Library to Film with a professional camera as part of her diploma!
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A person in traditional clothing kneels with raised arms before a swirling, ghostly face emerging from smoke or flames.
Happy Halloween 🎃👻
Discover stories themed on fear and horror 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/view_as/grid/search/2024--sttopicr:fear-and-horror?
'Summoning the Devil' by Normandie Syken (b.1995) © the artist. 📷 Glasgow Women's Library
It is an honour to be asked to give the Annual Maud Sulter lecture.
Friday 31 October, 4.30 - 6pm
Glasgow School of Art, Reid Building
🎟 Free, open to all
We provide free and high quality professional learning for teachers across Scotland covering key topics.
📝 This includes the national LGBT Inclusive Education CPD on behalf of the Scottish Government, as well as the Digital Discourse Initiative CPD to counter the effects of online hate in schools.
The entrance to the former Bridgeton Public Library on Landressey Street in the East End of Glasgow. Designed by J.R. Rhind and built in 1903, it's now home to the Glasgow Women's Library.
#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #bridgeton #library #architecturephotography
19.10.2025 16:51 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
GWL is commissioning new works for our #WeMakeMuseums project to be exhibited at Glasgow International 2026.
We’re seeking women artists with socially engaged, intersectional practices informed by environmental, class-aware, & anti-racist approaches.
womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/24/a...
colourful illustrated poster for Herland: A Celebration of Women in Music, presented by Glasgow Women’s Library. It includes hand-drawn figures dancing and a record player illustration. Text details: Friday 24 October 2025, 7–10:30pm, £15/20, hosted by Diljeet Kaur Bhachu, with live music from R.Aggs and Katrina Lee. Venue: 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP.
Herland 2025: A Celebration of Women in Music
Fri 24 Oct, 7–10.30pm
Glasgow Women’s Library
Featuring R.Aggs, Katrina Lee, and more, plus film, spoken word, food and friendship - a bold, joyful night celebrating women’s musical expression.
Book now: womenslibrary.org.uk/event/herlan...
All welcome
I wrote this about fighting Section 28 for National Galleries Scotland, part of the brilliant 'Resistance' exhibition - there are some really interesting blogs on there too:
www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...
For info @womenslibrary.bsky.social
◆《Herland: A Celebration of Women in Music》
October 24, 2025
at Glasgow Women's Library
womenslibrary.org.uk/event/herlan...
―❝Step into Herland, GWL’s unforgettable night of culture, creativity and connection, and the grand finale of our 2025 Open the Door Festival, which this year celebrates the…❞
A poster made by Glasgow Women's Library to promote the 'Herland' event to celebrate women in music, to be held on Friday 24th October at 7pm - 'an unforgettable night of culture, creativity and connection'. All welcome.
Buy your tickets now for 'Herland' @womenslibrary.bsky.social - all welcome womenslibrary.org.uk/event/herlan...
27.09.2025 11:17 — 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0This is an incredible opportunity! I won this fellowship and used the time to edit my first novel, You Will Be Safe Here. To meet and learn from writers in Aotearoa New Zaland and to gain valuable teaching experience. Previous holders inc Louise Welsh, Janice Galloway and others. Apply!
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Our new Autumn / Winter programme is out - an abundance of @womenslibrary.bsky.social joy to behold! Check it out here: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/12/a...
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A colourful jigsaw puzzle background with words like “Creativity,” “Women,” “Neurodivergent Voices,” “Learning and Healing,” and “Quilting” on the pieces. Overlaid in the centre is a bold green box with large white text that reads: “ARTIST OPEN CALL.” At the bottom are the logos of Glasgow Women’s Library and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
GWL is commissioning new works for our #WeMakeMuseums project to be exhibited at Glasgow International 2026.
We’re seeking women artists with socially engaged, intersectional practices informed by environmental, class-aware, & anti-racist approaches.
womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/24/a...
This Friday at noon, tune in to Clydebuilt Radio!
From riot grrrl punk to queer club anthems, forgotten blues icons to global pop trailblazers - our music archive tells stories of resistance, community & joy.
www.clydebuiltradio.com
Poster with a dark brown background featuring a stylised line drawing of a woman in a sari with a red bindi on her forehead. Large green and cream text at the top reads: Then & Now. Below, cream text states: An exhibition re-membering the lives and work of Scottish Black and Minority Ethnic communities. At the bottom, gold text reads: Glasgow Women’s Library · Welcome Wall · Black History Month · 01 to 31 October 2025 · Opening hours for Glasgow Women’s Library. Logos of Scottish Museum of Empire, Slavery, Colonialism and Migration, Glasgow Women’s Library, Decolonising the Archive, and University of Strathclyde are displayed along the bottom edge.
Then and Now: Re-membering Scottish BME Works and Lives //
An exhibition celebrating the culture, heritage, and contributions of BME communities in Scotland - reclaiming narratives and shining a light on stories that shape our society.
Part of @blackhistorymonth.org.uk
