This week we're working on the papers of life-long anti-nuclear activist Tony Southall. During UN International Year of Peace 1986, people from around the UK travelled to Scotland for 'October Peace Weekend', two days of non-violent direct action in protest of nuclear weapons.

The Women's Library holds a short run of 'SHE' magazine from 1970-1973. Zuhra Karim (LSE alumna) started the magazine in Karachi in 1963.

We'd like to locate copies of 'SHE' magazine from the 1960s for a project we're working on. Please get in touch if you can help.

Yesterday was #WorldHealthDay . Come & see our new display highlighting health related materials from across the collections GCU Library. The resources were chosen for their links to courses currently taught at GCU's School of Health & Life Sciences Glasgow Caledonian University SHLS

'International solidarity is one of the major pillars of our struggle for freedom'
This leaflet from the records of the Women's Sub-committee of the Anti Apartheid Movement Scottish Committee highlights the devastating effect of apartheid on women #WomensHistoryMonth

Wham! & Kevin Hobbs is right back to his youth!

It's not often that we get to see people interact with the stuff of their own childhood so we are delighted Kevin is in taking a trip down memory lane with comics from his dad Sandy Hobbs' collection.

Here are 2 great examples of #WomensArt illustrating covers of 'Social Policy' magazine, the long-running US journal of labour & community organising.
Held in our Withdrawn Journal Stock collection.
Image #1 from 1983 is by Dana Simson
#2 in 1980 by Renelda Higgins.
#WHM

Wonderful session this morning with Professor Fiona Skillen and @SocialScienceG students looking at archive material reflecting sport and leisure in the 1920s to 1930s. Really interesting student reflections on what has and hasn't changed over time. #SportHistory #LeisureHistory

To mark #GenealogyDay , GCU Lay Governor Danny Gallacher shares his family connections with the GCU site in our new guest blog: caledonianblogs.net/library/2024/0… Glasgow Caledonian University

What an inspiring #InternationalWomansDay event!

We were blown away by the panel of SocialScience_GSBS MSc Human Rights students who demonstrated what can be achieved when you #InvestInWomen . We hope you enjoyed exploring the archives too. #IWD

Great buzz Glasgow Caledonian University Archive Centre with our SocialScience_GSBS MSc in Human Rights #IWD 2024 event with students from Colombia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and visiting sisters Gloria Alarcón Garcia /❤️🙋‍♀️🏃🏼‍♀️🇺🇦

Time for a cuppa? This 1918 tea and oatcakes lesson plan by alumni, Ruby Purdon (a student of GCU predecessor institution the Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science), shows the difficulties in teaching cookery during #WWI #rationing .
#WomensHistoryMonth

Come down to the GCU Library this Friday for our Women's Health Fayre to celebrate #IWD2024

We'll be spotlighting all the help and support available across the university and showcasing our resources with some help from Glasgow Caledonian University Archive Centre and GCUStudentWellbeing 💜

Join us this Friday 8th March 2-4pm to celebrate #InternationalWomensDay !

At the event hosted by SocialScience_GSBS in conjunction with the Archive Centre, hear speakers from Glasgow Caledonian University GSBS MSc Human Rights & take a look at archival material used in their research. #InvestInWomen

Great to welcome back familiar faces from Glasgow Caledonian University GSBS MSc Human Rights today. In preparation for #InternationalWomensDay the students & Rosalind Parr are conducting some research into the history of activism for funding women’s services. #InvestInWomen #IWD2024 #WomensHistoryMonth

On #ScottishArchivesDay we'd like to thank our wonderful donors for the amazing Scottish social histories and stories that fill our collections. These local writers and reminiscence group booklets are from WEA Scotland. Find out more on our collections at gcu.ac.uk/currentstudent…

Another enjoyable session with University of Glasgow students today. This time looking at Scottish children's history via the records of RSSPCC (now Children 1st) as part of their Global History course. The group came up with such creative ways to get people thinking about the records.

What a nice morning! We loved seeing this bunch of UofGGES 🌍 students getting engrossed in the archives. The group looked at records on Chile, South Africa, & Palestine as part of their research on Labour Internationalism & Place.