Hi, I'm @AnabelMarsh, one of GWL's Women's History tour guides. We can't take you on any walks at the moment, so I've created a virtual one combining my favourite stops from our West End Walk and Suffragette City West Trail. Let’s begin at Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery 1/16 
Kelvingrove does have work by women, eg the Glasgow Girls and Margaret MacDonald, but much of the art is by men, and women often appear through the male gaze. If you look on the outside of the building you can see examples of idealised, stylised women. 2/16
Turning right along Dumbarton Rd we come to Anderson's College. In 1796 John Anderson, a professor at the University of Glasgow, left money in his will to found a rival, more egalitarian college. In its first 3 years, almost half its students were women. 3/16
Why did it need to be more egalitarian? Well, Glasgow University was founded in 1451, but the first woman didn’t graduate until 1894! She was Dr Marion Gilchrist, the first woman to receive a medical degree in Scotland. 4/16 gla.ac.uk/schools/medici…
Let's move on to University Avenue to find out more about higher education for women. Here are the Memorial Gates, celebrating significant figures of the University’s first 500 years. Only one is a woman! 5/16
That woman is Isabella Elder who was instrumental in creating Queen Margaret College in 1883, Scotland's first higher education college for women. She donated its building, North Park House. 6/16
Look across the road from the gates to the Hunterian Art Gallery with its reproduction of the home of artist Margaret MacDonald and her husband Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Margaret was one of the Glasgow Girls who blossomed from 1880-1920. Well worth a visit when it reopens. 7/16
Further down University Avenue is the Glasgow University Union, formed as a gentleman's club for students in 1885. It holds the dubious distinction of being the last student union in the UK to have single sex membership. Women were not admitted till 1980! 8/16
Turning down the Kelvin Way, we come to the Suffrage Oak, planted in 1918 by women’s suffrage organisations to mark the granting of votes to some women. In 2015, GWL successfully nominated it as Scotland’s Tree of the Year and it features on the cover of our West End Walk. 9/16
Unfortunately, in 2017 the Suffrage Oak was badly damaged by Storm Ophelia. However, it’s wonderful to see so much new growth on it. This is where our West End Walk normally ends, but I have a few Suffragette City West stops for you before I go. 10/16
Remember Isabella Elder and Queen Margaret College? This is North Park House which she donated to the college - you might know it better as the "old BBC building" on Queen Margaret Drive. 11/16
Crossing the road to the Botanic Gardens we come to the Kibble Palace. In January 1914, two bombs exploded here damaging 27 panes of glass. High-heeled footprints and a woman's veil convinced the press that Suffragettes were responsible, but no-one was ever charged. 12/16
An action Suffragettes definitely undertook was pouring acid or ink into post boxes. The West End has a surprising number of surviving Victorian and Edwardian post boxes, including this one at the top of Kirklee Rd. 13/16
In her autobiography, Jessie Stephen describes taking part in these attacks. One of the few working class Scottish suffragettes we know about, she worked as a servant nearby. So am I standing where Jessie stood? I like to think so! 14/16
That was our last stop, but if you're hungry for more, head to GWL’s #WomenMakeHistory page where you can download maps for our walks, trails, and bike ride. Some, including the two I have used here, are also available as audio-tours. 15/16 womenslibrary.org.uk/discover-our-p…
Finally, how about you? Tell us about the women you come across on your walks: place names, street art, memorials, and so on. Tag @womenslibrary and use #WomenMakeHistory. My fellow guide Joy has written a blog post with some ideas. Bye for now! 16/16 womenslibrary.org.uk/2020/06/09/tur…
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