Tour: Women’s organising and activism

FIGHT FOR EQUAL PAY

• UNISON on the equal pay campaign in Glasgow
• Open University learning resource on the fight for equal pay

LA PASIONARIA, WOMEN & INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY        

• Ethel MacDonald Collection @ The Mitchell Library, personal papers and Spanish Civil War archive materials
• Fernanda Jacobsen and the Scottish Ambulance Unit, article by Linda Palfreedman
• Article on Helen Biggar’s documentary film ‘Challenge to Fascism: Glasgow’s May Day (1938)’ by Jenny Brownrigg and Shona Main

WOMEN ON RED CLYDESIDE    

• Fiona Jack exhibition on Helen Crawford at Glasgow Women’s Library, blog by Laura Matheson
• Fiona Jack conversation with Adele Patrick about Helen Crawfurd
• Helen Crawfurd autobiography
• Red Clydesiders by Alastair Reid in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Protests and Suffragettes, a project working to recover and re-voice the histories of women activists in Scotland

HOUSING

• Clip from Red Skirts on Clydeside, 1984 documentary film about women’s history and the 1915 Rent Strikes.
• Glasgow Housing Struggle Archive
• Glasgow City Heritage Trust podcast (series 2, episode 6) with Joey Simons on Glasgow’s housing struggles. The whole interview is excellent and they discuss the role of women’s political organising and movements around housing from 1:04:00 onwards. Transcript here.

MIGRATION & REFUGEE HISTORY

• Glasgow Girls campaign, an educational resource for teachers
• Scottish Refugee Council
• Refugee history Scotland, recording of talk for Refugee Festival Scotland, 2021Vital projects supporting women in Glasgow:
• Ubuntu Glasgow
• Unity Sisters
• Milk Cafe Glasgow
• Soul Food Sisters

WOMEN IN TRADE UNION HISTORY     

• Margaret Irwin stop on the Dundee Women’s Trail
• Roz Foyer on the new Margaret Irwin STUC building in Bridgeton

ANTI APARTHEID MOVEMENT

• Scotland’s Sounds project, brief clips from interviews with Isabella Porte 1994-96 (halfway down the page)
• Glasgow Women’s Library, Nelson Mandela – Apartheid, Women and Glasgow
• Nelson Mandela Scottish Memorial Foundation
• History of the British Anti-Apartheid movement have a comprehensive online archive of interviews, campaign materials, writing, pamphlets

RED SUNDAY SCHOOL MOVEMENT      

• Red Sunday School. Last Sunday of the month at Kinning Park Complex, all welcome! Find out more and support our work
• Ruth Ewan documentary film on Socialist Sunday Schools ‘The Glasgow Schools’
• Clip from Red Skirts on Clydeside (1984) of women talking about their experiences attending the Socialist Sunday Schools.

ETHEL MACDONALD

• Ethel MacDonald film An Anarchist’s Story
• Strickland Press

AGNES DOLLAN

• Glasgow Times article on Agnes Dollan
• Protests and Suffragettes, project featuring Agnes Dollan

LOOKING EAST.

• Elspeth King on building up the People’s Palace collections
• Glasgow Women’s Library. Check out all their amazing collections, exhibitions and projects! Their women’s heritage walks are available to download and they run regular guided walks
• Calton Books, for all your socialist feminist reading needs

UNCATEGORIZABLE

• ‘A Life in Protest’, a poem by Jackie Kay in response to Ingrid Pollard’s work at GWL on political protests in the 80s and the library’s Lesbian Archive. Many of the women and moments who feature in the walking tour appear in this poem.

Many thanks to Ruth Gilbert and UNISON for commissioning this tour for IWD 2023.