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  • An illustration of Anne Lister in a comic book style. She has brown hair and blue eyes. She wears her hair up and the front is curled in tight ringlets. She wears a sober, black, high necked dress with a small white ruff. Dumbarton Castle sits on its rock in the background.

    A Scottish Adventure with Anne Lister

    09 February 2024, LGBT+ History, Women's History
  • old castle lit in green by floodlights

    Ghost Stories from Stirling Castle

    20 October 2023, Stirling Castle, Supernatural and Folklore, Women's History
  • ‘Her own sphere’: A short history of Girlguiding in Scotland

    26 July 2023, History, Women's History
  • A Women’s History Tour of Holyrood Park

    31 March 2023, Who are you?, Women's History
  • A black and white archive photo of Pittenweem harbour from the West

    Murder, Malice and Misogyny – The Pittenweem Witch Hunt

    31 March 2023, Archives, History, Supernatural and Folklore, Women's History
  • Renaissance painiting of a woman superimposed on a pen drawing of Huntly Castle

    Jean Gordon: an unlikely happy ending from the court of Mary, Queen of Scots

    24 March 2023, History, Mary Queen of Scots, Women's History
  • Black woman in period dress

    Dorothea Thomas: A Lasting Legacy

    28 October 2022, Black History, Women's History
  • one of burial cairns at Clava Cairns - a round structure made of piled stone with a central chamber

    The Campbells: Digging into the history of women in archaeology

    30 September 2022, Archaeology, Women's History
  • A canal in front of a large mill building at Stanley Mills

    Stories from Stanley Mills: Women millworkers during WWII

    25 March 2022, Industrial Heritage, Site Stories, Women's History
  • Image of plaque at wall. The plaque reads: "Mary Burton 1819-1909 Social Reformer and Suffragist lived here"

    The Marvellous Mary Burton

    08 March 2022, History, Who are you?, Women's History
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