The hand embroidered banners of the UK women's suffrage movement created for/by British Indian suffragettes, 1911. Physician Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh played a prominent role within the women's cause #WomensArt
#WomensHistoryMonth

📣To celebrate International Women’s Day we’re joining the Govan Reminiscence Group to honour Mary Barbour! 🤝

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD #women sday #MaryBarbour #RentStrike #WomensHistoryMonth #women empoweringwomen #women smonth #women #women empowerment #women supportingwomen

Just some Perth Women on Wikipedia we were talking about CILIPScotland #WINspiration #IWD2024 conference - including 'a gaggle of OBEs and a very big fish!'
Moving from library as venue to library as resource - a partnership model for Wikimedia UK trainers and libraries 💜✊️

Happy #InternationalWomensDay everybody. One of our all-time favourite photos from our Photographic Archive is this undated photo of a very young suffrage campaigner on the streets of Stromness #Orkney , taken by Robert H. Robertson early last century.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay

Check out this thread of events & exhibitions happening at Glasgow Women's Library this March👇

🎖️Including their exhibition of militant suffragette memorabilia which features a recent acquisition of Maud Joachim’s hunger strike medal.

A special happy #InternationalWomensDayto all the quiet, invisible women carers out there, who day in day out provide love, complicated and exhausting personal care and companionship to people who need them. Society would crumble without you. ❤️🌟x

🎉 Get ready to celebrate Women's History Month with us.
Starting on March 13th, join our giveaway until March 31st. Visit our website to see the prizes awaiting you: protestsandsuffragettes.com
#WomensHistoryMonth #womenempoweringwomen #womensmonth #Giveaway #giveawaycontest

🌟Honoring Mary Barbour
This Women's History Month, we’re celebrating Mary Barbour, a working-class activist and leader of the 1915 Govan Rent Strikes. She fought tirelessly for better housing, healthcare, and women's rights.

#MaryBarbour #womenempowerment #WomensHistoryMonth

Now open //

We Deserve a Medal: Militant Suffrage Activism

Open 10am - 4.30pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday. 10am-7pm Thursday. 12noon - 4pm Saturday. Entry is free. Everyone is welcome.

Read all about it in Ann Fotheringham's piece in Glasgow Times

glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/24086729.…

🎉Happy Birthday to #MaryBarbour , born #OTD 1875. Mary was a #workingclass activist & local politician, & famously led the 1915 #Govan #RentStrikes . She campaigned for fair housing, healthcare, & family planning clinics.

👇🏾 Read more on our website👇🏾 protestsandsuffragettes.com/mary-barbour/

Come work with me and the rest of the brilliant folk, community partners, practitioners helping to grow What We Do Now for communities across Dumfries and Galloway

We are very excited to see one of the new London Overground lines being names The Suffragettes Line & even more excited to see the line runs to Barking where working class suffragette Annie Huggett lived until she was 103!
#WomensHistory #HERstory

For #IWD2024 I'm offering a special FREE #womenshistory tour so money is not a barrier to discovering amazing women from the past.  Taking place the weekend of 9th/10th March looking at Scottish women writers. Lasts for 2.5 hours, 4 time options available! eventbrite.com/cc/iwd-2024-sc…

We Deserve a Medal: Militant Suffrage Activism
1 Feb- 31 May

An exhibition celebrating our recent acquisition of Maud Joachim's hunger strike medal, with a rare opportunity to see two other special medals, & some rarely seen gems of suffrage memorabilia from our collection.

Huge thank you to the wonderful Ann Fotheringham for this excellent piece on page 3 of the Glasgow Times today! Pick up a copy and support #localpress #BuyAPaper

We Deserve a Medal opens today! Everyone is welcome, entry is free

UK to finally ratify UNESCO 2003 Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage. Published my book Practitioner Perspectives on ICH just in time routledge.com/Practitioner-P… #UNESCO #Ichngoforum bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

Huge congrats to the amazing duo of dr t s Beall & Clare Thompson for such a fascinating talk! Loved hearing the stories you shared like Jessie Craigen & my fav Catherine Hogg Blair. ProtestsandSuffragettes is such an amazing organisation & I love that more people know about you now ❤️💪

Looking fw to this talk tonight -- join meself and Clare Thompson from the ProtestsandSuffragettes team for a chat bout Scottish Suffrage/ttes, and their inspiring creative actions

Biddal’s Bridge looking bonny #Dumfries

We're preparing to plant native species trees across five sites in D&G during February and March this year!

Interested in getting involved? Even if you've never planted a tree before you can join us as we plant over 400 trees.

Be in touch for details: bit.ly/CovidMemorialD…