WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE WOMEN
There are these resources on this important subject.
WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE WOMEN
Women played as important a role in the development of West Dunbartonshire as men, but have historically been less often acknowledges in history. This link takes you to a fascinating website created by Florence Boyle.
Florence has since published a book entitled : UNDESERVEDLY FORGOTTEN - WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE WOMEN
Annie Rhoda Craig - Activist, suffragette, socialist
WOMEN IN WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE THROUGH HISTORY
This resource covers a very specific periodand tells the story of local women’s experiences of life in West Dunbartonshire in the 1950s and 1960s
This is a subject that needs greater attention. To address this, the Glasgow Women's Library established a group in West Dunbartonshire to gather oral histories and found a wealth of personal testimony, anecdote, humour and memory rediscovered in people’s living rooms and attics as well as in archives,.[GWL].
The results of that study were published as :
WOMEN MAKING HISTORY IN WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE
This was a project of the Glasgow Women's Library. They describe it as : Women Making History in West Dunbartonshire, a wealth of personal testimony, anecdote, humour and memory rediscovered in people’s living rooms and attics as well as in archives, tells the story of local women’s experiences of life in West Dunbartonshire in the 1950s and 1960s.
From the Pitman’s shorthand night-school to home births and bacon fry-ups for the midwife, this collection offers a unique and entertaining insight into women’s lives, and a new resource not just for West Dunbartonshire but for women everywhere.
https://womenslibrary.org.uk/shop/women-making-history-in-west-dunbartonshire/
You can read more about them on their website.
http://GLASGOW WOMEN'S LIBRARY : https://womenslibrary.org.uk/?s=west+dunbartonshire
