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88: 98: 93: 138:’), chalking, and general merriment to re-voice the words of women back into the spaces they lived and worked. They also conduct oral histories and in-depth archival research, give talks, host creative workshops, self-publish zines, 'redraw' historical posters, and devise creative interventions in the public realm. The project team greatly values Knowledge as a form of knowledge activism, and has hosted a number of 157:
Protests and Suffragettes has been researching specific protest movements and the women who led them in and around Govan, Glasgow since 2013. Their research focus includes the 1915 Rent Strikes, Glasgow’s Suffragettes, the 1971 Upper Clyde Shipbuilder’s Work-In, and the 1996 Kinning Park Complex
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During the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the team ran a highly successful crowdfunding event. With these funds they researched and produced a deck of Scotland's Suffragette Trump Cards which highlight suffrage activism in Scotland. They also collaborated with the professional
87: 127:. The project is led by a voluntary team of artists, activists, and local historians who are passionate about rediscovering the voices and actions of historical women activists and finding creative and inspiring ways to share their work – and when possible their exact words. 97: 177:, Lydia Levitt, Pam Hazelwood, Stacy Nicolson, and others who prefer to remain mysterious. It has met regularly since 2013 but remained largely publicly offline until 2020, when the group started a Facebook Page followed by Twitter and Instagram. 47: 130:
Since 2013 the project has hosted guided 'artWalks', a hybrid guided-walk/performance happening that uses temporary graffiti, banners, call-and-response techniques (inspired by the
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and began as part of practice-based doctoral research at the University of Glasgow Theatre Studies in 2013. Current members of the voluntary team include
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to produce an education pack, including lesson plans, decks of cards, and zines, which were donated to schools around Scotland.
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Sit-In and community take-over. During 2020-2021, they expanded this geographic focus to include
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to run thirteen community workshops. Outputs of these workshops included a range of co-designed
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Protests and Suffragettes was founded and is led by socially-engaged artist
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In 2023, Protests and Suffragettes were awarded funded by
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Knowledge:GLAM
Protests and Suffragettes
Welcome
About the group
Scotland's Suffrage History Education Pack
Events
Articles done and still to do
Resources



Protests and Suffragettes
Scotland
UK
Govan
Glasgow
Dumfries
Occupy Movement’s
Human Megaphone
Knowledge Workshops
Wikimedia UK
Glasgow Women's Library
Women's History Scotland
Scottish suffrage
t s Beall
Clare Thompson
Gray Mitchell
Braw Talent
The Big Lottery Fund
Wikimedia UK

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