Glasgow Women's Library

Review by our volunteer Helen. This is a novel that shouldn’t work. It is written by over thirty-six different writers, all successful with various levels of experience. Thirty-six writers with different personalities and coming from different backgrounds and of all different ages. But work it does. Each writer plays a different character in this story, set in a two-week peri...

Every month, GWL team members and volunteers share what we’ve read at our Book Picnic. Here’s what we’ve been reading recently: This book was first published in 1938 and is a light-hearted story of a extraordinary day in Miss Pettigrew’s live. She is a middle-aged governess who is desperatly looking for a job. Because of an address mix-up she finds herself in Miss Delysia LaF...

You can download a PDF copy of the new programme here. If you would like to read our large print version, click here. As the season of longer, warmer days approaches our exhibition spaces will not only see more hours of light, but also a range of exciting new artworks by Sohaila Baluch, Ruth Ewan and Alixandra Prybyla, commissioned by our We Make Museums project group and fun...

Review by our volunteer Helen. The Lost Apothecary begins as we enter a dark empty Victorian shop in a backstreet in London. Nothing on its shelves or counter, all that is of interest to anyone who comes there is if they know what to look for. A large barrel in the corner to leave a note, and the only people who know that are women. The note you leave is then picked up by the...

At the end of 2025 the insulation works at GWL were completed, bringing the first phase of our net zero plan to an end. The works included loft and under floor insulation, external wall insulation for the sides and back of the building, and internal cavity wall insulation for the main façade. Following an earlier interview with Annika, the Facilities Management Officer, GWL v...