| Status: | Active, open to new members |
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| When: | On Tuesdays First Tuesday of each month 10.30 – 12.00 |
| Venue: | The Den at the Bungo |
The idea for this Group is that at each meeting a member of the Group will have prepared and will present to the Group a short lecture on a woman from history, of their choice, who may be of interest to the rest of the Group. The presentation should be around 30 to 40 minutes in length and can be illustrated with slides if wished. A discussion/ question and answer session will follow the talk.
The Group will also make visits to places, exhibitions etc associated with a particular person.
2026
June - Rena Stewart, a Scottish linguist at Bletchley Park who translated Hitler’s will and was a pioneer at the BBC World Service
March - The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
February - the group discussed the life of Mary Queen of Scots
2025
December - Lunch of course!
November - members of the group were asked to introduce to the others someone who is a heroine or person of interest to them in a short presentation
September - Barbara McLintock, an American geneticist
June - Josephine Baker
May - Suffragette Jessie Stephen exhibition
March / April - Glasgow Scottish/Ghanaian artist, Maud Sutter,
At our meeting in March we visited the exhibition at the Tramway on the life and work of a Glasgow Scottish/Ghanaian artist, Maud Sutter, and discussed her work at our meeting on 1st April.
In February we had an excellent talk by Anne-Marie Flowers on The Remarkable Life of Dr James Barry (Born Margaret Ann Bulkley).
In November we had a presentation from one of the group on the “Hidden Figures”. The story of three American women of colour who worked at NASA in the early days of space exploration. Their contribution to the success of many space missions was not acknowledged for some time after the events. Their stories were the subject of a recent film called Hidden Figures
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During the year we have discussed the lives of Dorothy Dunnett, May Donahue, Mary Barbour, Mary Seacole, Freya Stark and Artemesia Gentileschi. We have also visited an exhibition of the work of Glasgow artist Jessie Marion King, visited Mary Barbour’s memorial and house in Govan, The Tenement House and the Women’s Library in Glasgow.
Some images from our meetings and visits
