I never thought when I left work in 2012 that I would become a public speaker, amongst other accomplishments, but it seems I did. This is a list of talks, articles, and other performances and presentations made since then  – my wanderings and witterings.

2026

• Knightswood History Group. Talk: Jessie Stephen: Scottish Suffragette.
• 3Ls History Group. (Strathclyde University Lifelong Learners). Talk: What about the women?
• Maryhill Burgh Halls, Talk: Connected Community Series: Women of Maryhill.
• Scottish Association of History Teachers Autumn Conference. Talk on behalf of Glasgow Women’s Library: Pioneering women of the West End.

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. Talk: 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. Talk: 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. Talk: Jessie Stephen: Scottish Suffragette.
• Maryhill Burgh Halls. Talk: What about the women? (Took place at Maryhill Central Community Hall).
• Scottish Labour History Society. Talk: 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.

2018

• Retirement_Reflections: Sunday Guest Post Series: Hidden histories.
• Maryhill Burgh Halls. What about the women? Two talks as part of the Lost Glasgow exhibition.
• The History Girls Frae Scotland: Guest post – Jessie Stephen: Suffrage Pioneer.
• Glasgow Women’s Library Book reviews: Star by Star by Sheena Wilkinson.
• Mitchell Library. Jessie Stephen: Suffrage Pioneer. Part of an afternoon of suffrage talks.

2017

• Glasgow Women’s Library Book reviews: Shadow behind the sun by Remzije Sherifi.
• Glasgow Women’s Library Book reviews: Run by Ann Patchett.
• The Zombie Ward in Glasgow Women’s Library: Voices from the Belvidere: monologues from a fever hospital. (pp. 34-5). Also presented at the library 04/07/17.
• The Doors Open Glasgow Women’s Library Barnstorm. Talk on Women’s Heritage Walks.
• Glasgow Women’s Library Book reviews: Suffragette stories for younger readers.

2016

• Discovering Maryhill. Presentation on Women of Maryhill.
• Scottish Heritage Angels Awards. Maryhill Burgh Halls Trust Volunteers. (Non-speaking part in video).

2015

• Strathclyde University Tour Guides. Talk on the GWL Women’s History walks.
• Played Isabella Elder in GWL / RCS March of Women. Interviewed in the subsequent film March.
• 23 Librarians: Anabel – a retired librarian’s story.
• New Lanark: A visitor’s view.
• Glasgow Women’s Library Book reviews: Theresa Breslin’s Divided City: Mixing the Colours.
• Reflections Enroute. Rendezvous with the adventurous Anabel.
• Talked (on behalf of GWL) about the Suffragette Oak on BBC Radio Scotland.
• CILIPS Autumn Gathering. Session Chair. All Together Now! Scran: sharing digital heritage to enhance community engagement. Helen Foster.

2014

• Garnethill SWRI: Volunteering with Glasgow Women’s Library. (See also an interview Volunteering at Glasgow Women’s Library on Vimeo.)
• Glasgow Women’s Library “Who we are” session. Volunteering with Glasgow Women’s Library.
• Glasgow Women’s Library Book reviews: Daughters of Time.
• Glasgow Women’s Library Book reviews: All the Truth That’s in Me.
• CILIPS 14. Session Chair. #uklibchat: instant ideas and collaboration. Ka-Ming Pang.
• the3rdimagazine: Women on the shelf: Elizabeth Taylor. Republished by Glasgow Women’s Library.
• the3rdimagazine: Women on the shelf: Run by Ann Patchett.
• Glasgow Women’s Library Book reviews: Sisters of the Bruce.
• Library Camp Glasgow 2. Organiser and facilitator.
• ELISA Open Forum. Social media : collaboration, communities and cpd.
• CILIP Update: 23 Librarians: exploring the breadth of the profession.
• Wow 24/7: 10 essential Glasgow blogs (listed as The serial traveller.)

2013

• Glasgow University School of Engineering Admin Staff. Using Twitter to engage with students.
• Scottish Roundup: Love, loss and libraries.
• Glasgow Women’s Library. Top tips for Twitter.
• Glasgow Women’s Library Book of the Month: Anne of Green Gables.
• Information Scotland News 4(1): NLD: a snapshot of Scotland’s libraries.
• Amina Muslim Women’s Resource Centre. Top tips for Twitter.
• Glasgow Book Groups Friday blog: A sense of place.
• Glasgow Women’s Library Book of the Month: A woman in Berlin.
• MmITS AGM. Glasgow Library TweetUps.
• Glasgow Women’s Library Book of the Month: Room.
• Scottish Roundup: Equality, empathy and a full stomach.
• CILIPS13. Session Chair. Spotlight on Glasgow Women’s Library. Wendy Kirk.
• University of Strathclyde MLIS. Using social media in libraries.
• Glasgow Women’s Library Book of the Month: Hunger Games Trilogy.
• Scottish Roundup: Summer’s end?
• CILIPS Autumn Gathering. CPD23: a participant’s viewpoint.
• Library Camp Glasgow. Organiser and facilitator.
• Glasgow Women’s Library Book reviews: Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies.
• Glasgow Women’s Library Book reviews: Half Lives.
• Wikimedia UK Blog: Scottish women on Wikipedia.
• Glasgow Women’s Library. Top tips for Twitter (2).

2012

• CILIPS / CDG Chartership Workshop. Role of the mentor.
• Library and Information History Group Newsletter: The omniscient librarians of Jordanhill, 1921-2012.
• Scottish Roundup: Book Week Scotland and other stories.