I never thought when I left work in 2012 that I would become a public speaker, amongst other accomplishments, but it seems I did. On another, now defunct, blog I kept a list of talks, articles, and other performances and presentations made since then  – my wanderings and witterings. From 2025 I am listing them here instead and slowly moving backwards to fill in the gaps. This page is therefore a work in progress.

2025

• Glasgow Society of Women Artists. Talk: What about the women?
• University of Strathclyde Library. Talk: Women Make History: Researching and Guiding Women’s History Walks. (With Gabrielle Macbeth, Glasgow Women’s Library Volunteer Coordinator).
• Maryhill Burgh Halls. Exhibition: Jessie Stephen: Maryhill’s Suffragette. Publicity for this includes:
  • That’s TV Scotland  News 17/03/25
  • Women’s History Scotland. Blog post: Jessie Stephen (1893-1979)
  • BBC Scotland News at Seven 26/03/25
  • Working Class Movement Library. Blog post: Jessie Stephen: Scottish working class Suffragette
  • BBC Glasgow and West of Scotland. Article: The teenage suffragette who poured acid into mailboxes.
  • Cat’s Cream on CamGlen Radio 18/06/25 Camglen Radio | Lunchtime: Cat’s Cream, with Cat Gibson
• Graduate Women Scotland – Glasgow Association. Talk: What about the women?
• Glasgow Women’s Library. Talk: Jessie Stephen: Scottish Suffragette. Part of Meet the History Detectives event.

2024

• Jessie Stephen. Comic strip in: Maryhill Burgh Halls, Maryhill memories : a stroll through time. Illustrated by Robin Henley.
• 3Ls (Strathclyde University Lifelong Learners). Talk: Jessie Stephen.

2023

• 3Ls (Strathclyde University Lifelong Learners). Talk: What about the women?
• The No. 1 Befriending Agency. International Women’s Day event: Women of Maryhill.
• Glasgow City Heritage Trust. Podcast: If Glasgow’s Walls Could Talk, Series 2, Episode 8 Women Make History. (With Gabrielle Macbeth, Glasgow Women’s Library Volunteer Coordinator. Transcript here).
• Gallus Pedals. Blog posts: Trailblazers. (Series of mini-bios of historic women after whom the cycle tour company’s bikes are named: Mary Barbour, Isabella Elder, Marion Gilchrist, Muriel Robertson, Winnie Drinkwater, Jessie Stephen, Dorothea Chalmers Smith, Rachel Hamilton, Beatrice Clugston, and Annie Oakley).
• Glasgow Women’s Library. Blog post: Volunteer profile – Anabel.

2022

• Protests & Suffragettes Wikipedia Workshop. Lightening talk on Jessie Stephen. Video available on YouTube.
• u3a Glasgow West End Local History Group. Talk: Jessie Stephen.

2021

• Maryhill Burgh Halls. Presentation at AGM and blog post: Remembering Maria Fyfe. Short appreciation of the former MP for Maryhill who died in December 2020.
• Glasgow Women’s Library. Blog post: Finding Jessie.

2020

• Drymen Lunch Club. Jessie Stephen : Scottish Suffragette.
• GALLUS: Journal of the Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society, 117, 5-12. Jessie Stephen : Scottish Suffragette. (Transcript of September 2019 talk: not online).
• Glasgow Women’s Library Book reviews: March by Geraldine Brooks.
• Glasgow Women’s Library West End Twitter Walk
• Glasgow Women’s Library Garnethill Twitter Walk
• Glasgow Women’s Library on Subcity Radio Freshers’ Festival (talking about women’s heritage walks)
• Glasgow Women’s Library East End Twitter Walk
• Scottish Labour History, 55, 56-54. Jessie Stephen : Scottish socialist and suffragette. (Expansion of December 2019 talk: not online).

2019

• CILIPS: Meet our members : Anabel Marsh
• Govanhill Suffrage Project. Jessie Stephen : Suffrage Pioneer. Part of an afternoon of suffrage talks.
• Glasgow Women’s Library Drama Queens. The Abbess of Crewe. Sister Walburga.
• Glasgow and West of Scotland Family History Society. Jessie Stephen : Scottish Suffragette.
• Maryhill Burgh Halls. What about the women? (Talk took place at Maryhill Central Community Hall).
• Scottish Labour History Society. Jessie Stephen : Scottish  activist. Part of book launch for: Schwartz, L. (2019) Feminism and the servant problem : class and domestic labour in the women’s suffrage movement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.