Social participation, women
Subject
Subject Source: Ukat
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Agnes McLean Collection, 1943-2008.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/28
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
The WGMLA Special Collections comprise over 60 collections relating to notable individuals, organisations, and themes in the Scottish labour, trade union, and suffrage movements. In a number of cases, collections do not contain the personal papers of the named individuals or organisations but rather comprise of primary or secondary materials collected by WGML librarian Audrey Canning, or third parties, relating to that individual or organisation and collated for public research purposes....
Dates:
1943-2008.
Dr. Joan McMichael Collection, 1934-2008.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/29
Scope and Contents
Collection contains a parcel of papers of Dr. Joan McMichael, specifically concerning her time living, training, and working in Edinburgh as a medical practitioner. Enclosed letters between her son Jonathan Carritt and WGML librarian Audrey Canning record his desire that this section of his mother's papers be returned to Scotland (2008).Papers include her collected pamphlets and leaflets; correspondence and notes concerning matters of interest including Scottish healthcare;...
Dates:
1934-2008.
Elizabeth McIntyre Collection., circa 1970s.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/25
Scope and Contents
Collection contains one folder of reproduced press cuttings, images, and articles concerning the life and work of Betty McIntyre as a leading figure in the Scottish trade union movement. Included is a copy of a letter from the principal private secretary of the Prime Minister notifying McIntyre of her OBE award in 1975, and a copy of her President's address to the STUC Congress in 1974.
Dates:
circa 1970s.
Helen Crawfurd-Anderson Collection., 1917-2010.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
The WGMLA Special Collections comprise over 60 collections relating to notable individuals, organisations, and themes in the Scottish labour, trade union, and suffrage movements. In a number of cases, collections do not contain the personal papers of the named individuals or organisations but rather comprise of primary or secondary materials collected by WGML librarian Audrey Canning, or third parties, relating to that individual or organisation and collated for public research purposes....
Dates:
1917-2010.
Jessie Findlay Collection, circa 2003-2006.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/13
Scope and Contents
Collection contains one folder of papers concerning WGML librarian Audrey Canning's biographical profile of Jessie Findlay.Folder contains manuscript and typescript drafts of the profile Canning produced on Findlay for the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women in 2006, with additional handwritten notes. Also present are reproduced images of Findlay as a young woman and in her later life, alongside original and reproduced press cuttings and articles on her life and work....
Dates:
circa 2003-2006.
Jessie Stephen Collection., circa 1970s-1990s.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/38
Scope and Contents
Collection was possibly amassed by WGML librarian Audrey Canning in the course of her own research into the life of Jessie Stephen, in preparation for the publication of a biographical entry on Stephen in the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, 2006.
Dates:
circa 1970s-1990s.
Joe Harrison Maxwell & Kathleen Tinney Collection, 1909-?1924.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/16
Scope and Contents
Harrison Maxwell and Tinney were both teachers, social intellectuals and active members in the Red Clydeside movement of the pre-war period. This collection primarily contains correspondence between the couple in the early years of their courtship and marriage, with one small folder of letters pertaining to letters from James C. Welsh to the pair. The collection also contains Harrison Maxwell's schoolteacher's briefcase, from his time teaching at Airdrie Academy, and a folder of his...
Dates:
1909-?1924.
Mary Barbour Collection., 1920-2017.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
The WGMLA Special Collections comprise over 60 collections relating to notable individuals, organisations, and themes in the Scottish labour, trade union, and suffrage movements. In a number of cases, collections do not contain the personal papers of the named individuals or organisations but rather comprise of primary or secondary materials collected by WGML librarian Audrey Canning, or third parties, relating to that individual or organisation and collated for public research purposes....
Dates:
1920-2017.
Mary Docherty Collection., 1920-2000.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/12
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
The WGMLA Special Collections comprise over 60 collections relating to notable individuals, organisations, and themes in the Scottish labour, trade union, and suffrage movements. In a number of cases, collections do not contain the personal papers of the named individuals or organisations but rather comprise of primary or secondary materials collected by WGML librarian Audrey Canning, or third parties, relating to that individual or organisation and collated for public research purposes....
Dates:
1920-2000.
Mary Macarthur Collection., circa 1990s-2005.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/22
Scope and Contents
Collection contains one folder of papers concerning Macarthur, including inventory lists of material held by the WGML and the STUC archive pertaining to Macarthur, alongside photocopied images, secondary source articles, biographical profiles, and reproduced cuttings from the Women Worker newspaper recording aspects of her activism in the labour movement. Reproduced examples of her published writings are also present, as is her funeral tribute to Keir Hardie in 1915. Folder also contains a...
Dates:
circa 1990s-2005.
Rhoda Fraser Collection., 1952-2004.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/14
Scope and Contents
Collection contains one folder of papers and reproduced images pertaining to WGML librarian Audrey Canning's biographical profile of Fraser, produced for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), alongside a copy of Fraser's death certificate. Folder also contains a reproduced copy of Fraser's book of poetry entitled 'Confrontation', published under the pseudonym Crae Ritchie in 1973; original and reproduced pamphlets and press cuttings concerning the World Peace Congress held in...
Dates:
1952-2004.
Rose Kerrigan Collection., 1938-1996.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 1/21
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
The WGMLA Special Collections comprise over 60 collections relating to notable individuals, organisations, and themes in the Scottish labour, trade union, and suffrage movements. In a number of cases, collections do not contain the personal papers of the named individuals or organisations but rather comprise of primary or secondary materials collected by WGML librarian Audrey Canning, or third parties, relating to that individual or organisation and collated for public research purposes....
Dates:
1938-1996.
William Gallacher Memorial Library Archive.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.14114
Scope and Contents
The archive includes Gallacher's own personal papers, pamphlets, ephemera, photographs, and personal artifacts, alongside papers concerning the administration of the WGML by librarians Bob Saunders and Audrey Canning.The core of the archive comprises over 60 special collections donated by fellow activists or amassed by WGML librarian Audrey Canning in the course of her work, to facilitate future research and scholarship. These additions were primarily made to the WGML between...
Dates:
1890s-2010s
Women and the Wars Collection., circa 1990s-2000s.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 3/12
Scope and Contents
Collection contains inventory notes by WGML librarian Audrey Canning on materials in the Library relating to women and the World Wars; an envelope labelled as 'World War 1 & 2 Pics', containing reproduced images; an envelope of reproduced photographs of female war workers; photocopied secondary source articles; and an untitled article/essay by Wendy Turner on 'Scottish Women: Interwar Years'. Folder also contains a photocopy of the journal article 'A New View of Dilution: Women Munitions...
Dates:
circa 1990s-2000s.
Women in the Labour Movement Collection., circa 1980s-2017.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 3/9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Fonds:
The WGMLA Special Collections comprise over 60 collections relating to notable individuals, organisations, and themes in the Scottish labour, trade union, and suffrage movements. In a number of cases, collections do not contain the personal papers of the named individuals or organisations but rather comprise of primary or secondary materials collected by WGML librarian Audrey Canning, or third parties, relating to that individual or organisation and collated for public research purposes....
Dates:
circa 1980s-2017.
Women's Peace Crusade Collection., 1980s-2000s.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14114 Special Collections 3/10
Scope and Contents
Collection contains photocopied secondary source articles documenting the history of the WPC retrospectively; manuscript and typescript transcriptions of newspaper articles concerning the WPC; press cuttings; photocopies of pamphlets; and manuscript notes of WGML librarian Audrey Canning concerning WPC-related materials. Folder also includes an envelope of photocopied pamphlets by Jill Liddington on the 'history of women in the peace movement' and her letters to Canning thanking her for...
Dates:
1980s-2000s.