Perth Women on Wikipedia

Looking forward to this @nationallibrarynz.bsky.social Live event about Discovering #Perth Women in their collections. Hoping for a few tips!

ACTING UP: The Singing Suffragettes & Visioning Our Future Celebrate women’s history month with Protests and Suffragettes – an evening of music, herstories, and great chat!

12 March - our pals @scotsuffragette.bsky.social are having a #WHM26 knees up in #Glasgow Featuring Holloway Jingles set to music, stories of mixed race suffragette Jessie Soga, and big plans for 2028 centenary of Equal Franchise Act!
Booking essential
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The gender gap reflects long-standing historical and systemic bias in publishing, archives and citation. This Women’s History Month, we are spotlighting the global volunteers working to build a more equitable digital record

#InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth #IWD

We’re now sold out, but you can still register to watch online! Link for webinar in Eventbrite below.

Hi Charlie, sorry no, we haven't done the age verification yet! Best way to contact is email perthwomenonwikipedia at gmail

Still (FREE) tickets available for our Women's History Month Wikipedia Workshop on 28 March - please share
#Perth #Scotland #WHM26

Really looking forward to talking to Friend of Perth and Kinross Archives about Discovering Perthshire's Notable Women with the Perth Women on Wikipedia project on 19 March at 2pm - please come along!

Feminist Librarianship, which features a chapter on the Perth Women on Wikipedia library partnership, is available for pre-order - with 30% discount when you use the code WOMEN30
#WHM26

Select ticket – Women's History Month Wikipedia Workshop – AK Bell Library Women's History Month Wikipedia Workshop – AK Bell Library, Sat 28 Mar 2026 - For Women's History Month, we are running a FREE Wikipedia editing workshop. The workshop is run by editors and trainers f...

28 March - our Women's History Month Wikipedia Workshop in AK Bell Library, 10am-1pm. Learn editing basics from PWOW and local history team will introduce library resources to research #Perthshire women. Event is FREE but booking is essential (bring your laptop!)
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Discovering Perthshire's Notable Women | Perthshire Box Office

19 March - Friends of Perth and Kinross Archives are hosting a talk on Discovering Perthshire's Notable Women (Gill will be presenting about the PWOW project). Event is free to members of Friends of P&K Archives or £6 / £3.50.
#PerthScotland #WHM26

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An old yew tree lies horizontal on the ground with half of its root plate exposed. Several stems have emerged from the fallen trunk and grown upwards towards the light. Credit WTML

An old yew tree lies horizontal on the ground with half of its root plate exposed. Several stems have emerged from the fallen trunk and grown upwards towards the light. The sun is streaming through between the upright branches. Credit WTML

A 'phoenix' yew tree, Perthshire. A sculptural survivor. Many trees in Scotland's climate continue to grow thanks to unlikely physiological adjustments to their new positions. They're often called 'phoenix trees' i.e. they rise from the ashes! Amazing resilience.
#ThickTrunkTuesday #VeteranTrees

Marguarite Stocker in uniform

Marguerite EG Stocker apprentice engineer @ Galloway Engineering Co in #Tongland #Scotland which advertised professional training & was "a fine university for women engineers". Later Governor of HM Prison Askham Grange #Yorkshire 1959-67. b. #OTD 2 Mar 1901 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguer...

Before the vote was won: women and politics, 1868-1918 - The History of Parliament Dr Kathryn Rix, Assistant Editor of the House of Commons 1832-1868 Section explains the relationship between women, Parliament and politics in the late

This Women's History Month we are highlighting the long history of female involvement in Parliament and politics.

Below, Dr Kathryn Rix overviews the political involvement of women in the years leading up to some women gaining the right to vote in 1918.

#WomensHistoryMonth #WHM

#OtD 3 Mar 1932 the right to free speech on Glasgow Green in Glasgow, Scotland, was won after over a decade of direct action. Up to 100,000 people at a time defied a ban, often arming themselves with sticks, hammers and bottles until authorities caved stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1021...

Feminist Librarianship, which features a chapter on the Perth Women on Wikipedia library partnership, is available for pre-order - with 30% discount when you use the code WOMEN30
#WHM26

📢 March is #Women’sHistoryMonth – a fitting time to support new research in women’s and gender history!

Women’s History Scotland invites applications for one £500 Research Bursary for 2026. For conditions and how to apply visit 🔗

womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

Please share widely!

Today in London smashing herstory, 1912: suffragettes demolish West End windows “Never since plate glass was invented has there been such a smashing and shattering of it as was witnessed this evening when the suffragettes went out on a window-breaking raid in the West En…

#OnThisDay in London smashing herstory, 1912: suffragettes demolish 100s of West End windows in their sabotage campaign demanding the vote for women
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Love #Wikipedia editors 🥰 We created Ellen's page this morning and already another editor has improved it by adding a photo. This is Ellen Moxley and her partner Helen Steven receiving the Gandhi International Peace Prize in 2004

📷Gandhi Foundation on Wikimedia Commons

Select ticket – Women's History Month Wikipedia Workshop – AK Bell Library Women's History Month Wikipedia Workshop – AK Bell Library, Sat 28 Mar 2026 - For Women's History Month, we are running a FREE Wikipedia editing workshop. The workshop is run by editors and trainers f...

Just a reminder that we won't be at Bramblers in March - we'll be at AK Bell library for a #WomensHistoryMonth Wikipedia workshop 10am-1pm on Saturday 28 March. Normal #Wikipedia meet ups resume on the last Saturday in April
#PerthScotland #WeCanEdit

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We did some more work on researching and creating a #Wikipedia article for WW1 nurse Mabel Milne from #Perth (nearly done!)

Thanks to @dohertyta.bsky.social for sharing some sources 🙏 #histnursing

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Rhoda Fothergill - Wikipedia

Rhoda Fothergill (1929-2019), historian and archaeologist, taught at Kinnoull Primary School and Caledonian Rd, and published historical guides to #Perth Awarded BEM 1952 in recognition of her work on the history of Perth 💪
We added dates to her #Wikipedia page

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoda_F...

Charlotte Douglas (1894-1979), an obstetrician from Auchterarder #Perthshire transformed maternity services in Scotland. Her recommendations led to big drop in maternal mortality rates. 1962 OBE for services to medicine💪
We added wikilinks to her #Wikipedia page

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlot...

We created a page for Quaker peace activist Ellen Moxley (1935-2019) who set up Peace House in Braco #Perthshire with partner Helen Steven. Ellen was one of the Trident Three who damaged a nuclear facility at Loch Goil in 1999 💪
#LGBThistoryMonth

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Elizabeth Haldane - Wikipedia

Elizabeth Haldane (1862-1937) from Cloan #Perthshire was a suffragist, author, translator, hospital manager and 1st female Justice of the Peace in Scotland. Her LLD from St Andrews University wasn't mentioned on her #Wikipedia article! We added it 💪

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Fabulous morning of #Wikipedia editing at Bramblers Café this morning (before the coffee machine broke down 🙀)
Here's a 🧵 of what we got up to - changing the world, one edit at a time 💪

Lovely to spend time with my team in Edinburgh
Bonus point for having a sneak peak of the excellent Prison Nursing exhibition which launches tonight www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

A collage of photographs from the Early Women Doctors in Orkney display in the Archive

Right now in the Archive you'll find a fascinating display all about early women doctors in #Orkney, with a selection of documents, photographs and other items.

You can visit the display during normal Archive opening hours and you can read more about it on our Blog at: orkneyarchive.blogspot.com

Hilton of Cadboll - replica Pictish stone by an ancient chapel site that was used for the burial of unbaptised infants and suicide victims upto the 18th century. This is a fascinating stone for its central depiction of a woman. Original in National Museum #Scotland #medievalsky #archaeology

A Women's History Month montage in a grid layoutof pioneering women across STEM, education, science advocacy, and related fields. The portraits are primarily black-and-white or vintage-style photographs, celebrating trailblazers whose work advanced scientific discovery, engineering, computing, astrophysics, civil rights through education, and more. Top row (left to right): Gladys West, mathematician and educator whose modeling of Earth's shape contributed to the development of GPS technology; Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist who discovered pulsars; Eleanor Roosevelt, humanitarian, First Lady; Chien-Shiung Wu, experimental physicist who disproved parity conservation. Middle row (left to right): Edith Clarke, pioneering electrical engineer, the first woman to earn an electrical engineering degree from MIT; Grace Hopper, computer scientist, mathematician, and U.S. Navy rear admiral who developed the first compiler; Marie Curie, two-time Nobel Prize winner in Physics and Chemistry for her groundbreaking work on radioactivity; Pearl Buck, Nobel Prize in Literature. Bottom row (left to right): Rosalind Franklin, chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose Photo 51 was essential to understanding the double-helix structure of DNA; Septima Clark, educator and civil rights leader; Rita Levi-Montalcini, Nobel Prize-winning neurologist who co-discovered nerve growth factor (NGF); Gabriela Mistral, poet, educator, diplomat, and Nobel Prize winner in Literature. #WomenInSceince #WomenInSTEM

𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴. ~Newton

Women's History Month starts Sunday. #celebrate #WHM